On Fri 07 Feb 2020 at 23:47:59 (-0500), Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 07 February 2020 14:29:08 David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 07 Feb 2020 at 11:24:46 (-0500), Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > > > I don't use fish that I know of. Thats not to say mc isn't using > > > it. In which case someone has been playing with mc that has no clue > > > what they are doing. > > Because mc, 22+ years ago was pretty much self-contained. Now, AFAIAC, > mc has been contaminated, albeit invisibly just to keep it working as > ways and means have changed. Not always an improvement but it still > works for some definition of works. In this case, stretching the hell > out of the definition of "works".
I don't understand what you mean by contamination. You desired to transfer files through mc to a remote machine, and something has to run there in order to store the files. Are you suggesting that using bash in that role pollutes mc in some way, whereas mcserv didn't? > > If you're not running any suitable server at the other end (are you?), > > just an ssh -Y connection, which may at times be supplemented as I also > use an sshfs "mount", which works well as long as its user 1000 on both > ends of the cable. Root access is disallowed going either way as part of > my security model here. I've long since given up on ever keeping an nfs > share work here for more than a month or so, somebody is always screwing > with it breaking established connections. Samba/cifs has been broken at > weekly intervals since Tridgel? took on a partner many yeas ago now. > > So I use what works, ssh and friends, which tries by encoding the > transfer to guard against MITM attacks. And is about 10000% more > dependable. AFAICT when you open the connection at the other end (after you see the message fish: Waiting for initial line...), mc makes a ssh connection used for transferring commands and files. But what I meant by asking was whether you had anything like an FTP server running at the other end (mc could use that if you're allergic to fish). However, I presume not, judging from the narrative above. Cheers, David.
