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2003-3-31 Finally posted the 2940UW to double-p. Unfortunately, I still have yet to find a new packing box for the us5 for henning (the one I used is too large to post internationally).

Jolan cleaned up a shell given to me from a classmate that might solve my anonymous scp hopes. Must check with the classmate to see if he'll let it go on a BSD license. More ideally would actually to find a way to write a replacement myself, since I could use the practice - and this shell will need some additional features to be useable with WinSCP [at the least, maybe Fugu would work better]. Also, my guess is that despite the similarities between scp & sftp - that sftp won't work with this workaround.

As far as whether this is actually secure... not sure. Ostensibly this could be bundled together with a stsh type doodad, thereby allowing for further locking with systrace. That might be the 'safest' way to try to get this to work, as it is a bit odd.

So, one more reason to try to write my own. Seems like I recall a friend in a class writing his own shells as an assignment long long ago, nowadays even google doesn't turn up resources [shell scripting != writing a shell].

7 Mar 2003 (updated 7 Mar 2003 at 01:24 UTC) »

Word, got my advogato password back after emailing raph; I created this account a while back and picked something I definitely wasn't going to remember (ah well).

I have fallen prey to my hardware donation addiction again, the marathon us5 firewall box I got for a $275 song I'm going to ship to henning as he can do more with a sparc64 development-wise than I can. At least this time it will be more straightforward than the nate & costa hardware donations, since I have the hardware in hand. Of course, afterwards I will no longer have any sparc64 arch of my own; but ebay seems to have some similar [if not better] items for about $300. Still, $600 or so in the hole after that to get me back to where I was before I offered this to henning. I keep telling myself to stop donating stuff to OpenBSD that I don't have for myself yet. Maybe someday.

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