Interacting with a spawned ssh session?

[Steven M. Castellotti]

	I'm aware of sftp, but we use openssh around here, and I would prefer
an open-source solution anyway. If I can get the program I am writing to
work, then I plan to release it all under the gpl. Also, since the users
are familiar with graphical ftp only, I could just as easily teach them
scp as teach them sftp. I would prefer to not force them into the
command line, since many are not comfortable with it. (The graphical
portion will be in pyGTK)

J.K.Wight at newcastle.ac.uk wrote:
> 
> In comp.lang.python you write:
> 
> >       True, the password will be stored plaintext in memory, and there will
> >be no way to ever consider this program "truly" secure, but I'm hoping
> >to use it to get a few of my users off of ftp, which will at least
> >increase security in general.
> 
> Can't help you with the python, but is there a reason why you can't
> use SSH2 (current version 2.4.0)? SSH2's sftp command provides ftp
> over an ssh channel. It's not graphical, but then your users won't
> have been used to graphical ftp with the ordinary command either. Of
> course it requires SSH2 at the remote end, but maybe you don't have
> control or influence over that.
> 
> Jim

-- 
Steve Castellotti
Systems Programmer
School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania