I understand what scp does, but the issue here is that our ftp proxy is
completely custom. It authenticates the user against an oracle database,
and performs TCP/IP communications with another process to determine the
location of a virtual directory to place and retrieve files for the user
logging in. So, I can't just use SCP without our ftp proxy. That is why I
was looking for a way to have the sshd process interact with our ftp proxy.
As for sftp, I agree that it would be a better fit, but we are locked into
using an scp client because of a customer requirement.
Thanks to all of those who have responded to my question. It looks like the
consensus so far is that it is not a good idea to attempt this.
-----Original Message-----
From: Javier Reyna Padilla [mailto:jreyna@onlinet.com.mx]
Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 5:50 PM
To: Jack Curtin
Cc: 'secureshell@securityfocus.com'
Subject: Re: OpenSSH and FTP
If you need to download/upload files,I think you can do that just with
scp, you can remove ftp and use just scp, rhe problem is that no much
people is familiarized with scp ( I don't know why!! Is a very common
tool), Otherwise, why don't you chech the new feature in Openssh sftp,
it is included in the new version.
http://www.openssh.com/txt/release-4.4
Jack Curtin wrote:
[Reposting in plain text as requested, sorry about that.]
Hi,
We have an application that allows users to login and submit/receive files
through a custom FTP proxy server. We support most FTP clients. We now
need to be able to support an SCP client (such as WinSCP). I thought it
might be possible to use OpenSSH's sshd as an SSH wrapper for my FTP proxy
server. What I want to do is perform an ftp connect at session start, an
ftp login for password authentication, and then an ftp put or get for
sending or receiving files.
Questions:
Is this a bad idea? Is there a more straightforward way to accomplish
this?
I'm working my way through the code, but could you provide some guidance
on
the locations where I would need to add in my FTP logic as described
above?
Thanks in advance for any help.
Jack Curtin
Senior Software Engineer -- Team Lead
M2 Systems Corporation
"Elite Software Engineering"
850 Trafalgar Court
Suite 100
Maitland, Florida 32751
Phone: (407) 551.1310 Fax: (407) 551.1423
E-Mail: jackcurtin@m2-corp.com
