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Authored by: Jay D on Oct 18, '02 07:22:50PM
interesting. i'd check with the sysadmin at work and see what they're using to let you do AFP (appleshare) over an open connection (the Internet). perhaps you've connected to work with a vpn or some such? or some other interesting scheme is already in place that's transparent to you. otherwise, i assume what you're doing is totally insecure, and your password is sent in the clear (again, ask the sysadmin and chide them if this is the case!). i use Vapor a GUI to create SSH tunnels for AFP. the idea is to wrap AFP in SSH, so while everything looks like you're mounting the disk like always, the traffic is getting encryped. works great and no command-line futzing (though often scp is much much faster...) hope this helps...

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Remote login from Finder
Authored by: JohnnyMnemonic on Oct 18, '02 10:50:58PM

AFP over SSH is now included in Jaguar. It is available from the "Options " box when logging in. Vapor was created to address the need in 10.1.x; with 10.2, Vapor is (mostly?) superfluous and development has (mostly) stopped. Mactroll has open sourced the code to Vapor, in fact.

Look for other exciting projects from www.afp548.com!

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Remote login from Finder
Authored by: yrrw on Oct 22, '02 09:29:25AM
But how do we know the connection is made using ssh. When I do a netstat, all I get is
[slarty:~] me% netstat Active Internet connections Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address (state) tcp4 0 0 slarty.49493 sharonda.afpovertcp ESTABLISHED tcp4 0 0 localhost.49488 localhost.ipp CLOSE_WAIT
No mention of ssh. any ideas?

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Remote login from Finder
Authored by: Krioni on Oct 22, '02 05:05:19PM

Hmm. Strangely enough, I believe there are two problems:

1. The login for AppleShare supposedly encrypts the password.

2. I chose the SSH appleshare connection, and yet watching my network traffic flow using tcpflow, I could clearly read some of the contents of a file I transferred, as well as the directory listing sent back.

So, I believe the password is encrypted, but even when you choose "Allow SSH connection" it doesn't guarantee you get one.



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