On 7 Mar, Damien Miller wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, H. Wade Minter wrote:
>> Due to corporate requirements, my company's firewall policy blocks
>> outgoing file transfers (FTP puts), but allows FTP gets and outgoing
>> telnet. I don't like using telnet for the obvious reasons, so I
>> suggested they enable outgoing SSH.
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> Furthermore, even if you were to somehow block the specific case of
> scp, it would still be possible to copy files by cat'ing tar files
> about the place. This is not unique to ssh, you can move files easily
> over just about any connection (telnet included) using zmodem or
> kermit.
There is actually a much nicer way of doing this using plain ssh. If one
runs Solaris in both ends one can run the solaris file manager on both
systems (using the X11 tunnel) and just drag files between them. The
file managers will then use the X11-protocol to transfer the files
between themselves.
But as Damien pointed out in this case they are just deluding themselves
if they tink they stop file-transfers by disallowing ssh while still
allowing telnet. Also haven't somebody written a IP over http
implementation which could work in this case? There are many ways of
transferring files and I do not think it serves any meaningful purpose
to list them here.
/MaF
