[ILUG] SSH

[Rick Moen]

Quoting david jamison (david.jamison1 at ntlworld.com):

> Konqueror has a protocol called FISH whiich uses SSH using it involves 
> typing fish:// followed by the ip of the machine in question. It allows 
> secure browsing of the remote machines file structure as if it is 
> locally mounted. The connection starts and a dialogue box asks for a 
> valid user name and password.

The FISH protocol is a little-known treasure; thanks for mentioning it.
By the way, it's usable by more than just Konqueror; Konq gains access
to it via the kio_fish "ioslave" plugin library available in KDE 3.1 and
later core libs.  Other KDE apps can also use that plugin.

Please see:  "FISH Protocol" on http://linuxmafia.com/kb/Security/
(which is mostly a compendium of prior ILUG posts on the subject, with
thanks due mostly to Pádraig Brady).

mc and lftp also do FISH access via their own subroutines for that
purpose.  (If anyone hears of other implementations, I'd appreciate
hearing about it.  It's difficult to google for _relevant_ hits on
"FISH protocol"; you end up reading a great deal about hatcheries.
In particular, the GNOME guys should have something cooking, since 
they had a gnome-vfs ssh module written a/o last October.)

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