RE: I was wondering if gnome-vfs supports scp

[Philip Van Hoof <spamfrommailing freax org>]

On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 09:20 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 12:11, Philip Van Hoof wrote:

> > The question is, is it worth the effort?
> 
> I personally don't think so. People running ssh1 servers should upgrade
> anyway. Aren't they considered unsecure now? ssh.com says:
> 
> You can also connect to Secure Shell protocol version 1 (SSH1) servers.
> With the SSH1 Connections selection you can allow SSH1 connections,  
> deny them, or issue a warning when connecting to a remote host computer
> that is using version 1 of the Secure Shell protocol. 
> Secure Shell protocol version 2 (SSH2) is a more advanced and secure
> protocol than the legacy version SSH1. SSH Communications Security
> considers the SSH1 protocol deprecated and does not recommend its use
> anymore.


I understand,

In that case we are not going to put efforts in trying to support the
old scp-method. It might still be nice, however, to alias the scp://
uri-prefix to the sftp://-prefix. Thats just a suggestion.


> We used to have an ssh:// method that did nasty things like parsing ls
> output and using cat to read/write files, but it was removed and aliased
> to the sftp method because it was slow, unstable and generally much
> worse than sftp.

Ok

> > I do think, however, this module should check the server for sftp-
> > support and warn the user about the availability of sftp.
> > 
> > That way typing "scp://username host" where host is a ssh2-server would
> > give the user a warning like: "You are trying to access a secured server
> > using an older protocol. It's highly recommended that you use
> > sftp://username host in stead of the scp-protocol for this action." and
> > then of course the "[ ] Always show this warning"-checkbox.
> 
> vfs methods can't do anything like this. They are non-gui backends
> behind a posix-like file interface.

Ok


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