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Re: SSH and rsync for NT
- To: brandon <brandon at loudcloud dot com>
- Subject: Re: SSH and rsync for NT
- From: Charles Wilson <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>
- Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 15:50:41 -0400
- CC: "cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com" <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- References: <3920452C.2122B720@loudcloud.com>
AFAIK, all of the publicly available ports of ssh-1 and ssh-2 for cygwin
require password authentication. This is a restriction imposed by the
windows API.
--Chuck
brandon wrote:
>
> All,
> Been having a lot of trouble getting the pieces of my project to work so
> I want to outline it here so anyone can tell me if it is possible.
>
> Trying to get an NT 4.0 SP6a server to rsync with a Solaris box using
> ssh. I want this to be an automated job that is happening in a VERY
> secure fashion. I would really rather the session to authenticate with
> keypairs rather than keeping the password in a script.
> My questions are 1) Do I need Cygwin? I think that someone made an NT
> port for SSH that uses cygwin but Cygwin does not have a SSH component.
> (Actually have this working with interactive login. Not sure if the
> piece I am using is a "Cygwin created" or if it is an extension using
> the Cygwin API. Using keypairs right now requires that I hit return
> three times before I am authenticated??!!??) If Cygwin has a SSH piece,
> I would rather use that. This solution is pretty important so I would
> rather use products made by teams rather than individuals. Sorry in
> advance. I know the contributions individuals make and I appreciate
> them. It would be tough to defend on this one.
>
> 2) Rsync on NT. Similar questions. Does Cygwin have this or does
> anyone on this list have recommendations?
>
> 3) SSH2? Can I get this working on SSH2? This needs to be automated
> solution, preferably scriptable. Trying to stay away from Winbatch and
> the like.
>
> 4) Any opinions on how much less secure SSH1 is vs. SSH2. I have read
> that SSH1 is susceptible to authentication spoofing. Is that the
> primary vulnerability? Any others that I need to consider?
>
> Any advice on these or other products or maybe an alternative solution
> would be appreciated. Some of this may seem like it could be covered by
> RTFM but I have found the docs to be really lite for these tools. I am
> an NT guy trying to learn UNIX.
>
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