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From: Frank da Cruz <fdc@columbia.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Kermit 95 ver 2.1 and SECURED FTP automated connection
Date: 7 Feb 2006 19:27:21 GMT
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On 2006-01-26, K.Rose <rosek@alxn.com> wrote:
: We recently purchased Kermit 95 ver 2.1. I'm new to the product. From
: an XP client I'm able to schedule and launch K95 via a batch file and
: have it run a .KSC script. The script uses FTP and sucessfully logs in
: anonymously to a W2K3 server running SP1 and Microsoft ftp service/IIS
: ver 6.0. The put with parameters is working great. So here is my
: question.
:
: I don't always trust Microsoft and so do not want to be faked out.
:
Kermit verifies that the remote host is who it claims to be, using whatever
methods are made available by the connection and security methods you are
using, including (on Internet connections) reverse DNS lookups and (on secure
connections) higher-level authentication methods such as X.509 certificates.
: Below is my script. What I'm hoping is that it is a "SECURED FTP
: connection" (minus the anonymous part) so do all these SET parameters
: work against a W2K3 server or goes the ftp connection need to be made
: to some complimenting host also running a Kermit product?
:
I recommend you read the FTP client manual:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ckermit80.html#ftp
as well as the Kermit Security Reference:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/security80.html
If you want to watch what is happening while the connection is being made,
use "set auth ssl debug on".
If you want to check the security of the connection after it is made,
look at the \v(ftp_security) variable. If it has an empty value, you don't
have a secure connection. In this case it should be "SSL". Also (I don't
have a way to check this right now), you might also want to examine the
values of \v(authname), \v(authstate), and \v(authtype).
: SET AUTHENTICATION SSL VERIFY
: ;SET AUTH SSL CERTS-OK
: SET FTP AUTHTYPE SSL
: SET FTP AUTOLOGIN ON
: ;SET FTP COMMAND-PROTECTION-LEVEL PRIVATE
: ;SET FTP DATA-PROTECTION-LEVEL PRIVATE
: SET TRANSACTION-LOG VERBOSE
:
: SET TRANSFER DISPLAY OFF
: SET FTP DISPLAY OFF
: SET FTP PROGRESS-MESSAGES OFF
:
: SET TRANSACTION-LOG FTP
: SET FTP DISPLAY BRIEF
: set locus local
:
"set locus local" gives you an orientation for file management commands
that most people would not expect in an FTP client: local rather than
remote.
: ; Next position to high level LOCAL directory
:
: LCD c:\
: LCD c:\Junk
:
Anyway, if you use LCD and RCD (or FTP CD) rather than just CD, the LOCUS
setting is superfluous.
: set locus auto
:
This only has an effect when you make a connection.
In general, Kermit should be set up correctly for most situations out of the
box, and it should not be necessary to issue a huge number of SET commands.
- Frank