Purpose: describe what ssh is, where to find it, and what connections to [Tcl] it has.

See http://www.openssh.org/ for an open implementation of the
secure protocol for starting shell commands across an inter/intranet.


[[In the meantime, start with
[http://www.phaseit.net/claird/comp.security.ssh/ssh.html].]]

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Anyone know of a Tcl extension binding to one of the ssh libraries?

Perhaps [D. J. Hagberg]'s example of port forwarding, from 1998 [http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&selm=an_408378721] is useful.

Another suggestion was [TLS].

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[TV] I've within some limitations, used the [cygwin] ssh facility, which is quite extensive,
except varying from a drag to requiring out of package documentation to install. It is almost
[unix], though. It also contains working executables to use openSSL to create and deal with
[certificates], I  used it succesfully to make a secure httpd tick, except I forgot how.
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[CMcC] I've thrown together some code to allow [remote ssh tcl] execution.

[hkoba]: You can also use [comm via ssh] to send/eval any script to remote host.
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Russell Treleaven reports
[http://groups.google.com/groups?q=Russell+Treleaven+Expect&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&c2coff=1&selm=GrVTc.1017%24FZs1.32%40news04.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com&rnum=2]
that he successfully automates ssh client sessions on a [Windows]
host with [ActiveState]'s [Expect]
and the ssh2 executable
[http://www.ssh.org/].
He uses the "send slow" option.
Both of these applications are proprietary.




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