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Re: Re: OpenSSH Port for eCos?
- From: "Hans Hübner" <hans dot huebner at junger-audio dot com>
- To: "Gary Thomas" <gary at mlbassoc dot com>
- Cc: "David Tiktin" <tiktin at advancedrelay dot com>, "eCos Disuss" <ecos-discuss at ecos dot sourceware dot org>
- Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 16:59:12 +0200
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] Re: OpenSSH Port for eCos?
- References: <977777074.20060928151234@advancedrelay.com> <20060929141933.GB30446@lunn.ch> <451D2E9F.2060701@mlbassoc.com>
On 9/29/06, Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com> wrote:
OpenSSH makes little sense (Open Secure SHell) as there is no notion
of a 'shell' in eCos. One could run the Secure FTP protocol, but not
using OpenSSH, per se.
The fact that OpenSSH has its name from Unix does not make the concept
of a remote terminal useless to a system like eCos. Command line
interfaces (CLIs) are very useful with embedded systems, too. It
would be just great to have a SSH protocol implementation available
that could be used for secure remote access to such CLIs.
The fact that eCos does not come with a CLI framework is also not what
I´d call a strength. We are using a home-grown CLI written in
Javascript, but our interface can only be accessed using the serial
port. There is a port of tcl which can be used to implement custom
CLIs. Both of them would benefit from a SSH server framework in order
to allow for remote access. We are not suffering enough to port
OpenSSH to eCos, though.
-Hans
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