OT?vsftpd
Robert Brockway
rbrockway-wgAaPJgzrDxH4x6Dk/4f9A at public.gmane.org
Tue Feb 1 21:56:07 UTC 2005
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005, Alan Cohen wrote:
> TSX (PDP11) started in the 70's.
I made the connection tsx-11.mit.edu of course :) That was one of the
first great repositories of Linux software (along with sunsite.unc.edu).
> TSX32 (80386+ platforms) started in the 80's.
> I've been closely involved with it for over 25 years. I'd be tickled
> pink to tell you more about it.
I'd be interested to hear. Unixes often have an interest in alternative
OSes. HUMBUG (http://www.humbug.org.au) even accepts "non maintream
OSes" in its constitution.
> It would certainly be terrific if TSX (which can't do a secure-anything)
> could, with the help of a Linux intermediary, end up doing a secure copy
> (scp/ssh/sftp). But I don't yet see how.
The main thing is to have it secure before it leaves the network of
course.
> Presumably, "A" is TSX running an ftp client and "B" is Linux running
> the vsftpd server to which TSX connects. I don't see how you can wedge
> the functionality of "have it (ie: machine B) transfer a file" inside
> the vsftpd server.
I had a play around but I couldn't remember how to do this. In any case
firewalls play havoc with active (aka non-passive) connections :(
Rob
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