Could you use ssh tunneling (outside of your air app). It would mean that you would need to install an ssh client and set it up first... It dependes if your project is for private consumption or public...
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 8:55 PM, r.fender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yep, that's the complication that scares me. I have an application that > runs in an > embedded device. Currently, it is browser based, running through SSL, using > AMFPHP to > execute shell_exec() commands to run low-level Unix scripts to configure > the devices. > > The project managers now want to remove the app from the browser and use > AIR, and > connect via a binary socket to call and run those UNIX scripts. I have all > the root access > permissions I need. But using a secure connection like SSH would be the > cat's meow. I can > currently do everything I need through sockets with Telnet but there is no > security layer on > it (that I know of) and that just isn't gonna fly with the execs. > > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com <flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>, Tom > Chiverton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Thursday 13 Nov 2008, r.fender wrote: > > > Just thought I'd throw that question out there to see what you all > know. > > > > SSH is really, really, complicated. > > What are you trying to achieve ? > > > > -- > > Tom Chiverton > > Helping to synergistically enhance functionalities > > > > > > > > **************************************************** > > > > This email is sent for and on behalf of Halliwells LLP. > > > > Halliwells LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England > and Wales under > registered number OC307980 whose registered office address is at Halliwells > LLP, 3 > Hardman Square, Spinningfields, Manchester, M3 3EB. A list of members is > available for > inspection at the registered office. Any reference to a partner in relation > to Halliwells LLP > means a member of Halliwells LLP. Regulated by The Solicitors Regulation > Authority. > > > > CONFIDENTIALITY > > > > This email is intended only for the use of the addressee named above and > may be > confidential or legally privileged. If you are not the addressee you must > not read it and > must not use any information contained in nor copy it nor inform any person > other than > Halliwells LLP or the addressee of its existence or contents. If you have > received this email > in error please delete it and notify Halliwells LLP IT Department on 0870 > 365 2500. > > > > For more information about Halliwells LLP visit www.halliwells.com. > > > > > -- Fotis Chatzinikos, Ph.D. Founder, Phinnovation [EMAIL PROTECTED],
