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Package fsh

Details

Version: 1.2
Architectures: pc.i86.linux pc.i86.solaris
Maintainer: Andrew Baumann <andrewb@cse>
Website: http://www.lysator.liu.se/fsh/
Category: other
Sources: ftp://ftp.lysator.liu.se/pub/unix/fsh/fsh-1.2.tar.gz

Description

Remote command execution via a cryptographically strong method such as lsh or ssh is often painfully slow, especially if either of the involved computers is slow. The biggest problem is that the client and the server perform a lot of complex calculations during connection establishment.

fsh uses lsh or ssh to establish a secure tunnel to the remote system. This takes as long as a normal connection establishment, but once the tunnel is established, fsh can reuse it to start new sessions on the remote system almost instantaneously. You get the security of ssh and the speed of rsh.

Note: to get this working on CSE hosts, you will need to make sure that /home/stulocal/bin is in your PATH for an ssh command, which it isn't by default. The best way I've found to do this is put something like:

PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/stulocal/bin
into your ~/.ssh/environment file.

 


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