Using Secure FTP

[Son Le]

Hi everyone, I have a question concerning using Secure FTP...where can I find the software for secure FTP...I need to use secure FTP to log into a client secure ftp server and I don't have one on the system I don't believe. However I did a seach on the system for sftp and it came up with the following, "openssh-3.3p1" I'm not sure if this is secure FTP or not. Can you please direct me to where to find and use secure FTP...I would really appreciate it. Thanks.

[Paul Sperry]

Secure FTP is a part of the OpenSSH project
You can get it here.
http://www.openssh.org/portable.html

[Steven E. Protter]

Yes it is.

Software.hp.com

look for ssh

It includes scp, sftp ssh and all the tools you need to do the secure file transfer and terminal thing.

Attached is an unadulterated copy of Chris Veils isntructions for exchanging public keys. Just used it today, it works.

Steve

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

If you mean WU-FTPD with its additional security:

http://www.software.hp.com/cgi-bin/swdepot_parser.cgi/cgi/displayProductInfo.pl?productNumber=WUFTPD26

Regards!

...JRF...

[Wilfred Chau_1]

Do you mean Sterling Secure FTP or SFTP(bundled with SSH - Secure Shell)?

They are 2 different products:

Sterling Secure FTP:
http://www.sterlingcommerce.com/resourcecenter/ftp.html

HP version of SSH:
http://www.software.hp.com/cgi-bin/swdepot_parser.cgi/cgi/displayProductInfo.pl?productNumber=T1471AA

[Son Le]

wow thanks for the quick response...I'll take a look at those website. I took a look at the system and this is what I found, "openssh-3.3p1" do you guys think that I already have secure ftp on my system...i typed in "ssh" and "sftp" and both didn't work. How would I run the program?? thanks for any info.

[Wilfred Chau_1]

do a whereis ssh and execute from that path.
e.g.
# whereis ssh
ssh: /usr/bin/ssh

You may want to use scp which will call sftp.
e.g.
# scp /tmp/test remotehost:/tmp

[Son Le]

when i type in whereis ssh it gives me the following:

ssh:

thats it. So does that mean I don't have ssh install on the system.

[Hai Nguyen_1]

Should have typed in:

# type ssh

Hai

[Son Le]

when i type in ssh...it gives me:

sh: ssh: not found.

[Wilfred Chau_1]

Looks like you don't have it installed.

Try the below command

# swlist -l product |grep -i secure

or

# swlist -l product |grep -i ssh

If the output does show Secure_Shell, then
do this to find the ssh executable:

# swlist -l file Secure_Shell |more

[Chris Vail]

Hey Steve! I'm glad you got it ssh working for you. Its one of those things that are actually easier done than said. I was about to re-post that document here, but you beat me to it. Dadgummit.


Chris

[Son Le]

Hi everyone, I downloaded the openssh 3.5p1 version but however when I went to install it, it gave me an error at the end saying that the zlib wasn't install, etc...so I went to the zlib website and downloaded the latest zlib-1.1.4. I extracted it but when i went to type in ./configure

it gave me the following message and i don't think it got installed:

# ./configure
Checking for gcc...
Building static library libz.a version 1.1.4 with cc.
Checking for unistd.h... No.
Checking for errno.h... No.
Checking for mmap support... No.
#

thats all that it gave me....what is wrong and how do I go about fixing it. Thanks and I appreciate all your help.

[Son Le]

any suggestion on how to fix this??

[Robert Thorneycroft]

All the software to get OpenSSH 3.5p1 is up and running is available from the HP Porting Centre in deport form.

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/

Then just search for SSH download the depot and dependencies and install them all. You should have SSH up and running in no time if you follow the configuration instructions which are repeated many times in this Forum.

Kind regards,

Robert Thorneycroft

[Wilfred Chau_1]

I agree with Robert. Download the HP version of OpenSSH and install it with swinstall. It will save you a lots of time.

[Son Le]

thanks for the response. I went to that website and downloaded it. I moved all the files into /usr/local/ and have set the path however when i went and typed in sftp or scp the following error popped up:

# scp

/usr/lib/dld.sl: Can't open shared library: /usr/local/lib/libz.sl

/usr/lib/dld.sl: No such file or directory

Abort (coredump)



Can anyone explain to me what happen and how i can fix it. thanks

[Son Le]

??

[Shannon Petry]

When you downloaded the ssh package from Utah porting center, did you download and install the required packages? zlib is a package, and there are probably more.

As a novice, I learned to read very carefully the installation instructions and requirements before installing software. It really helps ;)

Regards,
Shannon

[Son Le]

Hi...I read through that site and I didn't see anywhere about installing zlib...can someone please help me out...thanks for all your answers...i really appreciate it.

[Shannon Petry]

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Shells/lsh-1.2.2/

Will get you to a gnu ssh site, from there if you look at the dependancies you will find zlib

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Misc/zlib-1.1.4/

and another called gmp

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Maths/Misc/gmp-3.1.1/


I do not think that gmp is required for ssh, but zlib is. This should get you the rest of the way.

Regards,
Shannon