topic Re: Secure file distribution? in Operating System - HP-UX

Secure file distribution?

Michael Gretton — Thu, 31 May 2001 10:47:05 GMT

Is there a way other than NFS (and obviously Rdist) and ftp to send files to other machines. I really like rdist but my security people are always hammering me (although they claim we have a great firewall). Any suggestions. I love the ease of rdist....

Mike

Re: Secure file distribution?

Ravi_8 — Thu, 31 May 2001 11:17:32 GMT

Hi michael
u can use rcp

Re: Secure file distribution?

Vincenzo Restuccia — Thu, 31 May 2001 11:56:05 GMT

Try http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Networking/WWW/curl-7.5.1/

Re: Secure file distribution?

Vikas Khator — Thu, 31 May 2001 14:55:53 GMT

Hi ,

You can use scp that comes with Openssh .

Re: Secure file distribution?

Michael Gretton — Thu, 31 May 2001 15:42:36 GMT

the scp option sounds exciting but requires password input...anyway around it?

Re: Secure file distribution?

Ralf Hildebrandt — Fri, 01 Jun 2001 07:33:43 GMT

The best solution is to use scp (from the OpenSSH package) or rsync (which offers incremental, compressed filetransfer over rsh/ssh).

scp doesn't require a password or passphrase if you use RSA authentication.

Re: Secure file distribution?

Shannon Petry — Fri, 01 Jun 2001 16:48:58 GMT

Another thing that may impress the Security folks is using rcp with kerberos authentication. If you have a solaris box handy, it's pretty quick to convert to a realm authority, and then distribute off of that auth. Of course it does not encrypt or make anything more secure except for the handshaking and authentication process.

Then again, to Windoze folks they think of Kerberos as some kind of MS magic which makes the world safe!

Regards,
Shannon

Re: Secure file distribution?

Michael Langas — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 16:39:02 GMT

This thread is old. I'm wondering if anyone knows of any tools that have come out since these original posts. From what I've found HPs version of rdist still does not support ssh :-(

I would prefer to stick with HP delivered solutions so I don't have to worry packaging etc...

Any Ideas?

Re: Secure file distribution?

Mel Burslan — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 16:45:08 GMT

we are currently using

HP-UX Secure Shell: sshd.c,v A.03.61.002 2003/09/18

and with the right set of known hosts and RSA keys, we are bypassing all password checks while using scp to copy files beck and forth among the servers.

Re: Secure file distribution?

Michael Langas — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 16:47:47 GMT

I have ssh in place and can use scp just fine. I guess there still isn't a way to easily do a rdist sort of file compare yet.

Re: Secure file distribution?

Patrick Wallek — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 16:50:03 GMT

I am using the latest version of rsync and it does support SSH. It is not an HP port, but I had absolutely no trouble compiling the latest rsync and getting it working.

It works very well with SSH.

http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/

Re: Secure file distribution?

Michael Langas — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 17:06:58 GMT

I was going to use the one from the HP-UX porting and archive centre but it is well out of date. The one they have posted has serveral security warnings posted against it.

I'll try the compile. I'm sure that won't be a problem. I just hope I can remember how to package the software into a depot. It has been a while. ;-)

Thanks for the advice.