putty - filepro -sco

[Brian K. White]

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From: "Fairlight" <fairlite at fairlite.com>
To: "filePro" <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 10:51 PM
Subject: Re: putty - filepro -sco


> The honourable and venerable Enrique Arredondo spoke thus:
>>
>> That sounds interesting, so when in unix I do sz -z $FILENAME to transfer 
>> to
>> windoze while using procomm as the term emulator, should I need to 
>> install
>> like a pscp server thingy on the unix so I can do pscp $FILENAME to get
>> similar results ?
>
> You don't do anything on the *nix side, if you've already got ssh up and
> usable.  Ostensibly, most people have dropped telnet already and are using
> PuTTY for ssh rather than telnet.  Most, not all.  But assuming you do, or
> you make ssh available (Brian White provides a binary distribution if you
> need it [ http://www.aljex.com/bkw/sco/index.html ]), on the Windows box
> you'd just do:
>
> pscp user at sco.host.name:/path/to/file .
>
> Then "file" would be placed in the current working directory of whatever
> called pscp.
>
> If ssh is already up and running, you can use pscp right now; all it needs
> is ssh on the unix side.

Careful. That version of openssh for osr5 has been obsoleted by several 
later sco builds.
Obsoleted 2 ways, newer versions, and simpler custom-installable packages, 
not to mention the intangible blessing of simply being built and packaged by 
SCO themselves.

Except for 2 things:

* When you build your own openssh from source, it bypasses SCO's user 
counting mechanism, when you use SCO's builds, the user count is enforced on 
those versions of osr5 that have strict enforcement. (5.0.5 and 5.0.6 have 
nag messages to the console, everything else is strictly enforced)

* One of the ones on my page was built with a patch that provides the 
ability to make chroot-jailed accounts. (which I combined with setting up 
some accounts to be sftp-only for some edi's that wanted to be supre secure) 
Even if you specifically needed that feature, I'd go through the bother of 
building the current version, not use that old version.

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