At 2003-07-24T08:19:49Z, Diomidis Spinellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> tar cvf - / |@ ssh remotehost -- dd of=/dev/st0 bs=32k | :
> The effect of the above command is that a socket is created between the
> local and the remote host with the standard output of tar and the standard
> input of dd redirected to that socket. Authentication is still performed
> using ssh (or any other remote login mechanism you specify before the --
> argument), but the flow between the two processes is from then on not
> protected in terms of integrity and privacy. Thus the method will mostly
> be useful within the context of a LAN or a VPN.
Isn't this almost the same as:
# ssh -f remotehost "nc -l -p 54321 | dd of=/dev/st0 bs=32k"
# tar cvf - / | nc remotehost 54321
Netcat implements a TCP/UDP transports and basically nothing else. Isn't
that what you're trying to achieve?
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Kirk Strauser
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