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SeRi@lDiE | # 11 | 2006-09-06, 14:06 | Report

Originally Posted by dgpretzel2

The download site came back to the land of the living, so I installed dropbear, and it works like a charm (from PuTTY on a W98SE

machine).

I finally chose dropbear over openssh because it had functionality sufficient for me, and is very compact.

Thank you all for your helpful comments.

DG

Can you SCP?
Just curios because I couldnt...

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dgpretzel2 | # 12 | 2006-09-06, 21:59 | Report

SeRi@IDiE,

I just tried a quick test. Created a small file and used scp to copy it to localhost. Then did the reverse (created small file and used scp to copy from localhost). Both times scp succeeded. I know it did the scp thing because during the first trial ("outbound" copy) I got the usual scp untrusted message.

I did note that scp reported it didn't understand several switches. I don't know where those arguments came from, since I supplied no arguments (other than the source and target). I suppose they "built-in" somewhere along the way. In any case, the files successfully copied (both incoming and outgoing).

Regards,

DG

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CelticDaddio | # 13 | 2007-07-09, 15:45 | Report

How does one do this? I tried but when I enter the IPof my 770 and click the open button putty just hangs....
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Originally Posted by dgpretzel2 View Post

The download site came back to the land of the living, so I installed dropbear, and it works like a charm (from PuTTY on a W98SE

machine).

DG

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Rider | # 14 | 2007-07-09, 16:12 | Report

Originally Posted by SeRi@lDiE View Post

Can you SCP?
Just curios because I couldnt...

Yep, I use dropbear's scp as the only way to transfer files to the N800 and it works flawless.

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paulh | # 15 | 2007-07-09, 16:49 | Report

I originally installed dropbear because it was in the alternative "how do I become root" instructions, but often use it for shell access or with WinScp.

Aside from the X forwarding, I think that it also lacks the ability to act as a SOCKS proxy.

The reame mentions that public keys must be converted to dropbear format before use.

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