[kde-linux] kde status

[Anne Wilson]

On Saturday 28 February 2009 14:36:37 Kevin Krammer wrote:
> On Saturday 28 February 2009, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Saturday 28 February 2009 09:53:56 Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > > Both use SSH as the protocol/encrypted transport.
> > >
> > > SFTP is a real file transfer extension for SSH, which is why it has to
> > > be supported by and enabled in the server.
> > > Just like FTP it supports operations on files directly.
> > >
> > > Fish is based on simulating that by running commands in a shell session
> > > of a normal SSH connection.
> > > So the SSH side requirements are lower, just need to be able to open a
> > > SSH connection, however the remote side must allow a shell session and
> > > be able to execute shell and/or perl scripts.
> > >
> > > Hope that helps understand the differences a bit better.
> >
> > Not really :-)  Perhaps I just have a blind spot here.  Can you explain
> > that again, in terms of my ssh session from a terminal being accepted,
> > but a fish session from konqueror is rejected?
>
> I was kind of trying to explain the differences between SFTP and FISH :)
>
> There should be really no difference in login behavior between FISH and a
> manual login. If you have access to the server's log, it might have hints
> on why it rejects the fish login.
>
> Or try using sftp since it has some advantages over fish.
>
OK - it's academic, really, as long as I can access with ssh.  I'll try to 
capture some log output at some point, but to stand any chance of getting 
something useful I'll need to move the laptop out to where the server is, and 
since that's not in the house I don't work there too often :-)

Anne
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