shfs over ssh (was Re: [BusyBox] Scriptable telnet?)

[Csaba Henk]

On Sun, 11 Jan 2004, Friedrich Lobenstock wrote:

> Csaba Henk wrote on 11.01.2004 15:02 MET:
> >
> > On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Rob Landley wrote:
> >
> >>On Tuesday 06 January 2004 05:50, Csaba Henk wrote:
> >>
> >>>The situation is that I want to script a telnet session. The best beast
> >>>for communicating with a telnet server is a telnet client, ain't it? Using
> >>>nc would mean writing a telnet client in shell... that's not what I want.
> >>
> >>I don't think so.  What are you trying to do?
> >
> >
> > I want to make shfs (
> >
> > http://shfs.sourceforge.net
> >
> >  -- it is a shell based network filesystem) work with busybox as mounter
> > and/or host. Currenlty shfs may use ssh and rsh for getting a remote
> > shell. As busybox has client+server only for telnet, I thought the
> > best/funniest solution would be porting shfs to telnet.
>
> Have you tried to use dropbear as ssh daemon?
> See http://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/dropbear.html

That's a good pointer!

I tried shfs hosts based on uclibc/busybox, with rrshd (

http://freshmeat.net/projects/rrshd

) (as I used it within a secure network, rsh was OK for me). The
problem with was that it made my uClibc bloated, as it needed the rpc
stuff. I'm afraid dropbear would need it too...

Anyway, the main point is that wouldn't be it cool to use shfs based
*only* on busybox? ;)

Csaba