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Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 15:50:41 -0400
From: Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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To: brandon <brandon AT loudcloud DOT com>
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Subject: Re: SSH and rsync for NT
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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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