SFTP filesystem

@Raziel

Ssh2-handler is an SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol) client and should be able to connect to any SSHv2 server, although I have so far only tested connecting to the Ubuntu PCs on my local network.

In order to do this I use the libssh2 library, which could be used for implementing other SSH protocol things as long as they are limited to the client side (for server side stuff a port of libssh might be useful and is something I intend to look into at some point).

Another thing I've been thinking of making with libssh2 is an SSH client with builtin terminal emulation (I got the idea from a thread on aros-exec.org) so that you don't have to deal with the compatibility problems that you get when using ssh from an AmigaOS shell.

@salass00

An SSH client with terminal emulation would be super cool!
I can't believe we dont have that on amigaos and that not more users are screaming for it...
I have worked around it by using rdesktop and opening up an terminal directly on my linux machine but would not mind if there was working terminal emulation directly in aos.

@salass00

Nice...so others could, if permitted, get access from the outside to AmigaOS and the programs running there?

@Raziel

Guessing that he means to create a ssh client, and not a ssh server.

@orgin

k, just curious

Yes, although this sentence:

Quote:- does offer something in the way of a hope

And I agree - it would be really great to be able to connect to the Amiga with SSH from another machine.

I know, everybody will now chime in and mention all the lacking security and the impossibility of implementing it under AmigaOS - shared memory etc etc - but what I have in mind is not opening the Amiga to the outside world, but only to my LAN, including a little Linux server I have running, and which I can in turn connect to from the outside with all the fancy security keys etc.

Best regards,

Niels

For anyone who might have missed it, version 53.9 of ssh2-handler is included with the recently released Enhancer Software 1.4.

http://www.amigans.net/modules/news/article.php?storyid=2698

@salass00

Where is this ssh2-handler supposed to be installed in?
L?

I don't have anything in there after the update to 1.4

Hello

Did you review the Read Me on the Enhancer Software 1.4 ?

It will report that SSH2-Handler is in the L directory and installs from there.

It is also listed on Updater tool: https://www.amisphere.com/updater

More information is available from the official Wiki:

http://wiki.amiga.org/index.php?title=SSH2-Handler

@amigakit

Yes, i did, and it wasn't there when i checked, now it is...

It will be on the Enhancer Software 1.4 image you downloaded. Did you run the Enhancer Software installation script ?

@amigakit

I used Updater, i didn't install any image

I just added support for ed25519 keys in ssh2-handler using a newer version of libssh2 from git.

It does require AmiSSL 4.3 though (based on OpenSSL 1.1.1a) which is not yet finished/released.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/cirmmp7jbiks00c/sshterm_wip.jpg?dl=0

Just a quick test using the libtmt terminal emulation library. Not much happening yet except for the hard coded test message.

The good thing about this library is that it seems easy enough to use and it doesn't depend on any specific graphics backend so it can be used with intuition.library/graphics.library or whatever you want.

Some more progress:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/zfks19v39b3eved/sshterm_wip_2.jpg?dl=0

I just added some code to connect to a ssh server and open start a shell session.

@salass00

Does your ssh2-handler also handle FTPS? Or is it SSH only.

We don't seem to have any FTP client that's capable of handling secure FTPS servers.

Hans

@Hans

FTPS is totally differenmt to SFTP .

FTPS is ordinary FTP over SSL so much more akin to HTTPS.

You are right we don;t have client a present. I'm currently FTP all my website stuff to my linuxbox so I can then upload to my ISPs server as they have gone FTPS only. That's abit of pain as you will imagine.

Been thinking about adding FTPS support to FTPMount, but I haven't had the time to get inot it and work out how yet.