Configure dropbear to be fast/insecure? (need a Microblaze speed-up!)

Steven Hein ssh at sgi.com
Fri Nov 7 21:42:12 WST 2008


Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 12:10 AM, Jamie Lokier wrote:
>   
>> Mike Frysinger wrote:
>>     
>>> if it's all private / development, why dont you just use telnet w/out login ?
>>>       
>> Maybe because "ssh command < file > file2" works while it doesn't work
>> with telnet?  ssh is a much more convenient and reliable interface.
>>     
>
> maybe for your needs, but this is about Steve's needs.  the extended
> scriptability of ssh often times is irrelevant if you just want to
> interact with a board.  telnet is a hell of a lot simpler than ssh.
> -mike
>   
Mike--

Thanks for the comments, you are absolutely right. But in this
case, Jamie is dead-on.   I've definitely used ssh alternatives in
the past; if I didn't want to stick with the ssh interface, I would
probably switch over to rsh.    But we will likely be scripting
in this environment, and will probably be using a layer over
ssh to allow commands to be sent to multiple Microblaze
targets (within the same private environment) in parallel.
And, we also may want to use port forwarding, which ssh
also handles nicely.

The environment is private, as in within a single enclosure
where the only access point is through another embedded
processor, but it will be production (eventually!).

Steve



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