On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Chad Perrin <c...@apotheon.net> wrote:
> I'm new to this list. Be gentle. > > I've been rummaging through the list archives, and sifting through the > Web documentation, but I am still not clear on the status of using SSH to > encrypt connections for push/pull and other operations using Fossil. Is > it stable? Does it require special configuration? Is there anything > about it in the Web docs or in any documentation that comes with it? Is > it not discussed outside of the mailing list? > > Any help in answering these (and related) questions would be appreciated. > I worked on that a lot, and finally managed to get it to run on my systems. But it seems like every ssh implementation is a little different, and those differences are causing problems for some users. My current approach is to run ssh to a shell on the remote side and then issue shell command over the wire that invoke Fossil multiple times to act as a server for the client-side protocol. It's all a bit dodgy. A prior approach was to run ssh to a single instance of the Fossil server with the TCP/IP tunnelling and then just do the usual TCP/IP client/server exchange over the tunnel. That seemed to work more reliably and across a wider variety of systems. The difficulty was in choosing an unused TCP port on the remote end. There was also a security concern that another process on the same system might try to sneak information through on that same TCP port. I looked at the scp source code. They seem to use the first method above, the current method, of sending multiple commands a cross an ordinary ssh connection to a shell. But I might have been misunderstanding the code - it was hard to follow. If any reader has suggestions on a better way to do SSH access for Fossil, please speak up. > > -- > Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] > > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users > > -- D. Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org
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