Re: [MacPerl] MacPerl and SSH

[Matthew Langford <langfml [at] eng [dot] auburn [dot] edu>]

On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Scott R. Godin wrote:

> wouldn't a perl-scriptable ssh session be even slightly useful? *scratches
> head* I dunno, I mean, it's like, I was almost looking forward to tackling
> the problem, if you know what I mean.. it's sort of a let-down to find that
> there are some ssh variants available (free) and not the slightest thought
> or word of encouragement to explore and discover new perl territory with a
> helpfoul word or two to send me on my way...

Sure, very useful.  Go ahead and code it up.  You can use most of Net::SSH
if you port the Unix ssh libs.  Or you can compile the SSLeay libs for
crypto stuff, and implement SSH using those primitives.  For speed
reasons, you will almost certainly want the core routines done in C shared
libs.

I, for one, would _love_ to see more SSH options.  Even if you only got as
far as compiling a few crypto libraries using CodeWarrior, writing down
what was necessary to get it done and posting on the web would be helpful.

Both SSH and SSL are not trivial little protocols (is _any_ protocol
trivial when you dig into it?), and it isn't straightforward to port a
forking daemon to MacOS.  Prepare for some serious work. If it
were easier, somebody would have done it already.

> Anyone have a link to point me to the difference between SSH1 and SSH2? (I
> had no idea there was a difference til someone pointed that out in an
> earlier e-mail)

<http://www.onsight.com/faq/ssh/ssh-faq.html>

see Section 1.8


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MattLangford 


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