Eben King wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Robert Snyder wrote:
>
>> Eben King wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, michael hast wrote:
>>>
>>>> In my ongoing quest to establish local file sharing, I have
>>>> discovered three avenues by which to share files: NFS, SMB, and FISH.
>>>> What is FISH? Do any of you know? It seems to work between a couple of
>>>> the machines, but I've never heard of it before now. As always,
>>>>
>>> I've only heard of it (in a computer sense) referring to an encryption
>>> algorithm.
>>>
>>>
>> The algorithm you speak of is known as blowfish.
>>
>
> Yup, sho is. Never mind then.
>
> Based on http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2005/04/hotel-rwanda-fish-fdo.html ,
> fish:// sounds like scp
>
Actually, it sounds a lot like sshfs/shfs (http://shfs.sf.net,
http://fuse.sourceforge.net/sshfs.html), only entirely in userspace as a
KIO conduit. The basic idea is to run remote shell commands to build a
directory listing and whatnot. Using "scp" alone (really only a secure
drop-in replacement for the old BSD r* utils, ala "rcp"), wouldn't buy
you directory listings and file deletion/moves, etc. This is why sftp
was devised. With scp plus some basic shell commands like "ls" and
"rm", a filesystem can be presented over an ssh session in a more ad-hoc
fashion. This is what sshfs/shfs and fish:// appear to do.
WinSCP used to use something similar. They've since added sftp
functionality. There is some mention of it on the rssh page
(http://www.pizzashack.org/rssh/index.shtml).
There are some links to sshfs/shfs etc on my cornfs braindump post:
- Ian C. Blenke <ian@blenke.com> http://ian.blenke.com
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