Re: scripting a weekly download
Re: scripting a weekly download
- Subject: Re: scripting a weekly download
- From: "Robert C. Jacobson" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 08:14:55 -0400
At 7:05 AM -0400 7/11/02, Luis Ernesto Hernandez wrote:
Hi, listers:
I can probably benefit from this discussion, since I have a related
necessity, but our Internet server uses SSH protocols. All the versions of
Fetch and Anarchie I've laid my paws on cannot handle secure connections.
Does anyone know of an FTP client for Mac which uses SSH?
Gratefully,
Luis E. Hernandez
One (perhaps non-perfect) solution:
You could use a ssh tunnel, and still use Fetch or Anarchie. You'll
just be connecting to some local tunneled port instead of the
directly to remote server. This requires one to use PASV FTP.
Also, the actual data connection is not encrypted, but the login and
control commands are encrypted.
This may help (from the Apple Server Admin list..):
At 12:44 AM +0200 10/15/01, Stefan Seiz wrote:
On 14.10.2001 20:22 Uhr, Colin Witt<email@hidden> wrote:
We've been doing this since day one, albeit with NcFTPd, but the process
remains the same. In my experience, the only way to get this to work is to
use passive FTP and let the server assign random ports to each data
connection. [SNIP]
Colin Witt
Baylor Public Relations
That's it - using PASSIVE Mode. But to make wu-ftpd accept changing
IP-Addresses (which the tunneled do) during a passive session i had to
recompile it using the configure option:
--disable-pasvip
That did the trick!
Thanks a lot Colin!
So for anyone interested in also tunneling his ftp sessions here is how to:
You need open-ssh installed on both ends.
Start a tunnel from your client machine to your server:
sudo ssh -f -C -N -L 8021:servername.dom:21 servername.dom
(in this case we listen on the client port 8021)
Then instead of having your ftp-client connect to the servername.dom have it
connect to:
localhost:8021
This has the effect of the clear text password only being visible on your
local-machine. So if nobody has a Packet-Sniffer running on lo0, you're
pretty safe.
I also do this to tunnel IMAP connections from Mail.app to my Server (CGPro)
- nice workaround for the missing SSL of Mail.app.
On 14.10.2001 20:54 Uhr, Paul Summermatter<email@hidden> wrote:
Stefan,
Maybe this is a stupid suggestion, but why not use scp or sftp? I
don't have any OSXS 1.03 servers still around, but I thought for sure
scp worked just fine to and from the machine, and I know it works fine
on 10.1.
Regards,
Paul
Paul,
i want to do this because i love to use a decent client where i can get an
ftp-directory-listing and hit APPLE-J to edit a file in BBedit ;-)
And thus i prefer to use FETCH 4. Rbrowser (ssh/scp frontend) does a great
job, but is a little slow since the whole session is encrypted... For me it
is usually sufficient to encrypt the password - if not i use command-line
scp.
--
Stefan Seiz
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