> I have installed sslwrap, but I don't understand how do I actually _use_ > it. I want to encrypt a [ftp,pop,etc...] connection between my computer > and a remote machine. The remote machine has sslwrap installed too. What > client do I use to connect, say, to the remote pop3 server, but with > encription?
not a direct answer to your question (cause i have never used sslwrap) but here are a couple other options. i use ssh to wrap my sessions. with a command like this: # ssh -C -f -L 1100:pophost:110 sshhost you setup a pop tunnel. pop host is the host you pop your mail off of, and ssh host is the closest host to it that you have an ssh account on (they can be the same but they aren't always). i use this in fetchmail with the below config but just set whatever your pop client is to pop mail from localhost on port 1100. heyzeus(larry)$ cat .fetchmailrc set daemon 60 poll localhost port 1100 protocol pop3 uidl username larry password MyPass mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d larry" preconnect "ssh -C -f -L 1100:mail:110 calvino 'sleep 9'" you can do a similar thing with ftp with a line like this, the only catch is to remember that you have to put your ftp client into passive mode for it to work (pretty much all ftp clients support this): # ssh -C -f -L 2100:ftphost:110 sshhost this is obviously a bit of a pain if you need to connect to a bunch of different servers so what i started doing was using a program called hsftp (you can find it on freshmeat). it's cool, basically it's an ftp client that doesn't really use ftp, it uses ssh/scp from an ftp like interface. unfortunately it's still pretty simple (doesn't support command line history or directly caching like ncftp but i'm hoping it will improve). eg. heyzeus(larry)$ hsftp badger.alaska.net Welcome to hsftp. Current remote directory is </home/larry> Current local directory is </home/larry> Use '?' or 'help' to get a list of commands. hsftp> ? put -- upload file(s)|directory(s) to remote host get -- download file(s)|directory(s) from remote host mput, mget -- same as 'put', 'get' dir, ls -- list remote directory ldir -- list local directory cd -- change remote directory lcd -- change local directory pwd -- print working directories chmod -- 'chmod' in remote directory mkdir -- 'mkdir' in remote directory del, rm -- 'rm' in remote directory debug -- be more verbose ?, help -- this help message quit, bye -- quit the program hsftp> ls bin etc mail hsftp> ls -l total 3 drwxr-xr-x 2 root staff 1024 Oct 8 1999 bin drwxr-xr-x 2 larry staff 1024 Mar 6 03:50 etc drwx------ 2 larry staff 1024 Mar 5 14:04 mail hsftp> adam.
