On Wednesday, 02/21/2007 at 11:37 CET, Rob van der Heij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have not even heard the "which ASCII" and "which EBCDIC" yet ;-)
Ha! You just haven't read all your posts yet! > If sshd has an option to enable / disable translation, you could run > one of each on different IP stacks, and allow users / applications use > different host names to select translation or not. Just using a > different port might be even better because that does not complicate > the key issues. Alas, it does not, though some enterprising individual could update ssh and scp (open source, anyone?) to add that capability. The draft RFC spec for sftp includes specification of "text" mode file transfer, but openSSH doesn't appear to implement them. The sftp protocol looks far more like NFS than it does FTP. > There's also options to specify the cipher to be used (even via the > known_hosts IIIRC) but I am not sure we could come up with a cipher > that also does the translation along with encrypt and decrypt. And the > idea is probably so ugly that I would want to keep it secret if we > could :-) I will pretend that you didn't say it, so we will both be safe. :-) Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
