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From: JDanSkinner@JDanSkinner.com (Dan Skinner)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: IKSD from a user account?
Date: 23 Oct 2004 14:07:38 -0700
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ERACC <junkmail@eracc.com> wrote in message news:<2tsr6nF24redcU1@uni-berlin.de>...
> I've been looking into running IKSD as a regular user instead of as
> root for security reasons. For example like Squid starts up as "root"
> but runs all its' other processes as user "squid", same with Apache
> and user "apache". I also want to give incoming connections
> "anonymous" access over some sort of secure tunnel for download
> only. I know about sftp, scp - I don't want those - I want Kermit 95
> or c-kermit on the client side for the robust scripting. I will have
> complete control over the client and server side of this application.
>
> Is this possible? I've read through what I can find so far on The
> Kermit Project web pages but nothing jumped out that let me know I
> can do this. So, I'll ask here for a URL if this can be done and the
> URL to a HOWTO exists. Of course a concise explanation in the group
> will work as well.
>
> I did find a post by Jeffrey Altman in a Google Groups search about
> running C-Kermit and then using the "SET SERVER ..." command. That is
> not what I want although I will use it as a last resort.
>
> TIA!
> Gene (e-mail: gene \a\t eracc \d\o\t com)
I'm not sure I understand exactly what you mean, but we use C-Kermit
on Linux and Unix machines to exchange data (flat ascii files) with
remote K95 machines. This is a fully scripted exchange, which can be
initiated by either the scheduler or clicking on an icon at the remote
end. The login to the *n?x machine is by straight dial-up, by Telnet,
or SSH (telnet or ssh usually over the open internet.) Login(s) are
either to a unique user for each remote site or to a system wide user,
based on customer preference. The login launches c-kermit in server
mode pointing at the server side exchange directory. The K95 script
sends and gets selected files, deleting the files on the source end on
successful transmission. SSH does pretty good security for the
paranoid. We have been using this basic method since 1991. In the
early days Unix c-kermit was 300K and Procomm fit on 1 diskette. We
switched over to K95 to take advantage of SSH, run supported on WXP,
and get back to single threaded scripts. The dead simple approach
gives us lots of flexibility and portability and seems to be
absolutely reliable. Hope this is of some help. Can provide more
details if you think they would help.
Regards�Dan.