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From: fdc@columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Subject: Re: Newbie question
Date: 15 Aug 2000 22:59:41 GMT
Organization: Columbia University
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To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
In article <8ncguk$4a8$1@samba.rahul.net>,
Clarence Dold <dold@rahul.net> wrote:
: I've been using kermit for a while, but I've never ...
:
: I use K95 to log in to a "system", using the supplied login.ksc.
: Then I have a macro that I can invoke that causes that system to log in to
: an ftp server, using the name and password that I previously supplied to the
: "login" page of K95D for getting into the system. It uploads a file, and
: logs out.
:
: I want to do this same job from a unix ckermit session.
:
: I've never used a login script from unix, other than one with hard coded
: passwords. I thought that the login.ksc would prompt for a password if one
: wasn't supplied, but that doesn't happen.
:
: I could craft a script with askq in it, but I'd rather just ask for a
: newbie pointer here ;-)
:
: Can I have a moderately encrypted password file on unix, like the one for
: K95, so I don't have to key it in?
:
There's a section in the C-Kermit book on this, starting on page 449 in the
second edition. Of course, this is leaving aside the question of using a
secure transport in the first place (like Kerberos, SSL, SRP, etc).
- Frank