[ On Sun, January 17, 1999 at 16:55:57 (-0500), Robert O'Callahan wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: How do I sz/rz under an ssh connection?
>
> I use sz/rz from Teraterm/TTSSH quite often. It's fine as long as you don't
> have to transfer a lot of files. (If lots of related files are involved I
> sometimes just transfer a ZIP file.)
So why not scp the zip archive if you're using zip for multiple
files???? You'll only have to enter your passphrase and/or password
once, and you won't have to fiddle with any other redundant file
transfer protocols!
> I don't know of any ssh-agent implementations for Windows. I don't even
> know what interface TTSSH would use to communicate with a Windows
> ssh-agent.
I don't know what ssh-agent has to do with anything. I never use it on
Unix. Note that if you use a blank pass-phrase for your personal
private RSA key then you shouldn't ever have to enter any passwords to
initiate an SSH connection. I don't know all the details on doing this,
but the discussion seems to come up on the list every other day (i.e.
it's almost as frequently asked of a question as how to compile on Irix
or DU!).
> Workarounds: using SSH to tunnel FTP connections, or better yet, using SSH
> to tunnel SMB file sharing connections to a machine running Samba (or NT,
> if you're stuck with that).
More silly and redundant file transfer protocols. If you're using SSH
then you're already using a perfectly adequate and well integrated file
transfer protocol (scp). You don't need to tunnel anything.
--
Greg A. Woods
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