[MAGNet] Transferring files securely from a Mac [was SSH and root compromises ...]

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From: Aron Roberts (aron@socrates.berkeley.edu)
Date: Wed Oct 24 2001 - 14:35:48 PDT

In the message "Re: [Micronet] Re: [Security]: SSH and root
compromises", dated 2001-10-24, Ian Crew wrote:

>No, [the Connecting@Berkeley 2002 CD] does not include a scp or sftp
>client [for the "Classic" Mac OS].

   A future version of Fetch, the FTP client that was included on the
C@B 2002 CD, may have "support for sftp and FTP over SSH" by "late
this year or early next year," according to its author, Jim Matthews:

     http://fetchsoftworks.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000072.html

   Also, one can use MacSSH's port forwarding feature to provide a
secure tunnel for the FTP control connection (over which one's
username and password are transmitted) established by Fetch or most
other Mac OS FTP clients, as noted below.

   Mac OS X users might wish to check out RBrowser, "a full featured
free graphic FTP/SSH/SFTP client":

     http://www.rbrowser.com/RBrowser_main.html

At 10:18 -0700 2001-10-24, Charley Paffenbarger wrote:
>Good news that you've include MacSSH in C@B 2002. Does it include a
>secure copy or secure ftp client or secure tunnel for X-windows
>applications?

At 11:43 -0700 2001-10-24, Ian Crew replied:
>Yes, Mac SSH can do port forwarding. You will still need to use a
>product such as Tenon's XTen to display X apps on your mac.

   Instructions on setting up port forwarding to provide a secure
tunnel for FTP using MacSSH and Fetch are provided on two university
Web sites:

   http://www.stat.ohio-state.edu/department/docs/ssh/mac/macftp.html
   and
   http://www.bio.upenn.edu/computing/instructions/security/portforwarding/

Aron Roberts
Workstation Software Support Group

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