Hi John,

The profile will be moved to $HOME/.gnome2/.gftp as GNOME community 
hosts the source repository/bug tracking for gFTP.

Best Regards,
-Alfred

John Fischer wrote:
> Alfred,
>
> It would be real nice to have the .gftp configuration file 
> in .gnome or some other directory instead of $HOME.  When
> will the "Desktop base directory spec" be an approved Free
> Desktop specification?  
>
> Thanks,
>
> John
>
> On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 23:47, Shi-Ying Irene Huang wrote:
>   
>> Template Version: @(#)sac_nextcase %I% %G% SMI
>> This information is Copyright 2008 Sun Microsystems
>> 1. Introduction
>>     1.1. Project/Component Working Name:
>>       Gftp for OpenSolaris
>>     1.2. Name of Document Author/Supplier:
>>       Author:  Alfred Peng
>>     1.3  Date of This Document:
>>      18 November, 2008
>> 4. Technical Description
>> 1. Introduction
>>     1.1. Project/Component Working Name:
>>
>>         gFTP: multithreaded file transfer client.
>>
>>     1.2. Name of Document Author/Supplier:
>>
>>         Alfred Peng
>>
>>     1.3. Date of This Document:
>>
>>         11/04/08
>>
>>         1.3.1. Date this project was conceived:
>>
>>             12/14/1997
>>
>>     1.4. Name of Major Document Customer(s)/Consumer(s):
>>
>>         1.4.1. The PAC or CPT you expect to review your project:
>>
>>             Solaris PAC
>>
>>         1.4.2. The ARC(s) you expect to review your project:
>>
>>             LSARC
>>
>>         1.4.3. The Director/VP who is "Sponsoring" this project:
>>
>>             robert.odea at sun.com
>>
>>         1.4.4. The name of your business unit:
>>
>>             New Solaris Group, Desktop
>>
>>     1.5. Email Aliases:
>>
>>         1.5.1. Responsible Manager:
>>
>>             leo.binchy at sun.com
>>
>>         1.5.2. Responsible Engineer:
>>
>>             alfred.peng at sun.com
>>
>>         1.5.3. Marketing Manager:
>>
>>             glynn.foster at sun.com
>>
>>         1.5.4. Interest List:
>>
>>             desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org
>>
>> 4. Technical Description:
>>     4.1. Details:
>>         gFTP is a multithreaded file transfer client for *NIX based machines.
>>         It has the following features:
>>
>>         * Supports the FTP, FTPS (control connection only), HTTP, HTTPS, SSH
>>         and FSP protocols.
>>         * FTP and HTTP proxy server support.
>>         * Supports FXP file transfers which is a subset of FTP protocol.
>>         * Bookmarks menu to quickly connect to remote sites.
>>         * Internationalized to 41 languages.
>>         * Double-paned layout to show the local and remote filesystems.
>>         * Transfer pane to show the real-time status of each queued or active
>>         file transfer.
>>         * Log pane to display the text commands and responses between gFTP
>>         and the remote server.
>>
>>     4.2. Bug/RFE Number(s):
>>
>>         None.
>>
>>     4.3. In Scope:
>>
>>         See above.
>>
>>     4.4. Out of Scope:
>>
>>         See above.
>>     
>>     4.5. Interfaces:
>>
>>                                Exported  Interface
>>         --------------------------------------------------------------------
>>         Interface Name                           Classification   Comment
>>         --------------------------------------------------------------------
>>         SUNWgftp                                 Uncommitted      Package 
>> name
>>         /usr/bin/gftp                            Volatile         gFTP 
>> launch script
>>         /usr/bin/gftp-gtk                        Volatile         gFTP GUI
>>         /usr/bin/gftp-text                       Volatile         gFTP CLI
>>         $HOME/.gftp                              Project Private  Profile
>>         /usr/share/gftp                          Project Private  Directory
>>         /usr/share/doc/SUNWgftp                  Project Private  Copyright 
>> directory
>>         /usr/share/applications/gftp.desktop     Volatile         UI spec
>>
>>
>>                                Imported  Interface
>>         --------------------------------------------------------------------
>>         Interface          Classification   ARC case           Comment
>>         --------------------------------------------------------------------
>>         GNOME Platform     Committed        LSARC/2008/207     GTK+ library
>>         Libraries                           GNOME 2.22
>>         SSH                Committed        PSARC/2001/212     Secure Shell
>>         OpenSSL            Volatile         PSARC/2006/019     OpenSSL 
>> library
>>
>>     4.6. Doc Impact:
>>
>>         New manpage, gftp.1.
>>     
>>     4.7. Admin/Config Impact:
>>
>>         None.
>>     
>>     4.8. HA Impact:
>>
>>         None.
>>     
>>     4.9. I18N/L10N Impact:
>>
>>         The JDS team and the G11N are working together to evaluate and
>>         provide I18N/L10N support.
>>     
>>     4.10. Packaging & Delivery:
>>
>>         Adds new package, SUNWgftp
>>     
>>     4.11. Security Impact:
>>
>>         gFTP uses OpenSSL library to encrypt the control and data channels
>>         for file transfer over HTTPS, and to encrypt the contol channel for
>>         FTPS. It creates socket BIO to handle SSL connections transparently.
>>         A handshake will be performed to verify server's certificate after
>>         the connection is established. The certificate verification will be
>>         with mode SSL_VERIFY_PEER and depth 9. It doesn't use the SSLv2
>>         protocol and the list of available ciphers will be set to
>>         "ALL:!ADH:!LOW:!EXP:!MD5:@STRENGTH".
>>
>>         To support SSH protocol, gFTP uses ssh/sftp commands to build up
>>         connection with the server. The authentication information will be
>>         sent over the SSH connection. All the following requests and 
>> responses
>>         will go back and forth through this connection for secure file 
>> transfer.
>>
>>         gFTP uses socket to transfer file by FTP and HTTP protocol. The
>>         password will be encoded with standard base64 for HTTP 
>> authentication.
>>         As for FTP authentication, the password will be sent in plain text
>>         through socket.
>>
>>         gFTP includes a feature that allows user to save passwords. The
>>         password will be saved in the gFTP profile directory. This will
>>         create a potential security vulnerabilty because gFTP only has very
>>         primary encryption/decryption to make the stored passwords 
>> unreadable.
>>         Each character is separated in two nibbles. Then each nibble is 
>> stored
>>         under the form 01xxxx01. The resulted string is prefixed by a '$'.
>>
>>     e.12. Dependencies:
>>
>>         The following versions of the imported interfaces are required:
>>
>>         GNOME 2.22 Upwards
>>         OpenSSL, SSH
>>
>> 5. Reference Documents:
>>
>>     [1] gFTP homepage:
>>         http://www.gftp.org
>>
>>     [2] Related ARC cases:
>>         LSARC 2008/207: GNOME 2.22
>>         PSARC/2006/019: OpenSSL upgrade to 0.9.8a
>>              PSARC/2001/212: Secure Shell
>>
>>
>> 6. Resources and Schedule
>>     6.4. Steering Committee requested information
>>      6.4.1. Consolidation C-team Name:
>>              Desktop
>>     6.5. ARC review type: FastTrack
>>     6.6. ARC Exposure: open
>>
>>     
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