On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 06:36:22AM -0600, Scott Bolte wrote: > On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 01:07:38 -0500, Michael G Schwern wrote: > > > > See above. Yes, ssh is not portable enough. > > Where is the gap? I have OpenSSH on every Unix platform I > use and, with cygwin's help, all the windows based systems > too. I can even log *into* a w98 host with ssh.
Anything which is not Unix is the gap. Namely VMS and non-Cygwin Windows. On the Windows end, I'd rather not depend that they have Cygwin installed. Also, if the client runs in the Cygwin environment it executes the Cygwin Perl. It will be difficult to test as straight Windows. Resolving the client-side ssh installation problem is not worth the trouble. I'm going with just straight, unsecured socket communications and an ad hoc protocol. At this point, encryption is not necessary. There's nothing worth encrypting. To see why, look at the example protocol conversation at http://www.makemaker.org/wiki/?AutomatedTestDistribution Its really that simple. -- Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Ya gotta figure whatever you come up with is gonna be about as portable as a flypress. -- Brian Ingerson on advanced make usage
