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Re:Exaggerated again ...
If Data and Lore had been configured with different host keys, a whole lot of anguish could have been avoided.
When a signal transmission is detected from Data's quarters, Wesley Crusher arrives to investigate. He finds Lore, now impersonating Data, who explains that he had to incapacitate his brother after being attacked. Wesley is doubtful, but since Lore and Data were misconfigured with identical host keys, he has little option but to pretend to accept the explanation.
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Re:Honestly?
SecureCRT also seems to have a Linux version.
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Re:Honestly?
I do really miss SecureCRT
Why?.
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Re:Honestly?
Wireshark runs on Linux, Mac OS X, BSD, and Solaris.
According to its page, SecureCRT runs on MacOSX and Linux.
And what's the advantage of SecureFX over e.g. Filezilla?
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Re:I wished it had quick download/uploads like CRT
It is funny that you mention it. I use version 3.4.8 as well.
My license issue date is 5/11/2001, and with that issue date version 3.4.8 is the newest I can grab.
I am not sure what your issue date is, but if it is on or after 6/1/2001 then you can get SecureCRT 4.0.x:
http://www.vandyke.com/pricing/upgrades/securecrt_securecrt_el.htmlIf I had only waited to get my license for another 30 days...
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I wished it had quick download/uploads like CRT.
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How about rz and sz? ;)
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If not FTP, then what for resumes support?
I recalled SFTP can't do resume downloads and uploads when I last tried it, years ago. So I use good old Z-modem's sz and rz commands through SSH(1-2) connections with SecureCRT clients (wished PuTTY could do it and SyncTERM's Z-modem seems to be broken [never worked correctly]). FTP can do resumes too, but obviously insecured. Are there any other popular/common protocols that will transfers, with resume support, securedly on various platforms (Apple Mac, Windows, and Linux/UNIX)?
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Re:Choose them all under one.
He likes the interface better.
That's exactly right. There's a nice GUI to configure it and manage all of my saved sessions. For example, one can choose the font to use for a session by pointing and clicking at it. Better clients, such as SecureCRT, have better management of sessions, including grouping them into folders (necessary when you have 100+ hosts), scripting for sessions (for auto login, etc), searching and saving of all session history, tabbed interface with the ability to move tabs into and out of new windows, clone tabs, ability to have multiple sessions open in tabs at once with a single click, great GUI-based key generation and management.
Most important for me, SecureCRT supports zmodem for file transfers. I can type "sz " in a shell and the file will be sent from the remote system to my desktop. I can type "rz" and I'm prompted with a file requester to select files to send to the remote host. It's much faster than dicking around with opening another shell and dealing with scp or sftp.
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Re:At a little over a meg...PuTTy is my clear cut winner. A little over a meg for a full installer with all the bells and whistles, what's not to love?
I used to think this way too, but recently I spent $65 or so for a SecureCRT license. It has every feature Putty has, plus three that Putty doesn't and I find indispensable:- A tabbed interface
- Integrated scp/sftp interface (Putty's is a separate program with a command-line only interface)
- Zmodem file transfers. Extremely useful as I have to ssh through multiple servers to reach the one I want, and to get a file back to my desktop involves multiple scp's.
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I still use Z-modem today on the Internet.
Vandyke's CRT and SecureCRT, and SyncTERM have Z-Modem support. I still use rz and sz commands in these clients to upload and download off Linux and UNIX systems. It beats scp.exe, sftp, etc. AND I can resume too. I wished PuTTY would add it, but they won't so far.
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How to make Windows look just like BSD...
My short list:
Anything by VanDyke software. This stuff just bleeds "professional": http://www.vandyke.com/
Now, how to turn Windows into a fully armed and operational battlestation:
Download Microsoft Windows Services for UNIX, aka Interix:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/sfu/d ownloads/default.asp
Install using the NetBSD pkgsrc guide for Interix:
http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/pkgsrc/platfor ms.html#interix
Now patch it (a necessary step):
http://www.duh.org/interix/hotfixes.php
Now, download and install the latest Interix bootstrap binaries from ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/bootstrap -pkgsrc/
Grab pkgsrc-current from ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/current
Now go to town!
(Just don't forget to ALT-ENTER your C Shell terminal, with green on black text, natch) -
Re:I get what he wants.
SecureCRT supports ActiveX scripting which means you can useany scripting language supported by WSH on your machine (like, say, ActivePerl). I think it will accomplish goal.
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Re:what are you asking?
I use SecureCRT on a daily basis.
When you're editing the properties of a session, you can check the "Logon script" box and choose a logon script to use for that session. You can do that either per-session, or as a global setting so it happens for all of your sessions.
Your logon script can contain as many aliases as you'd like. -
SecureFX
Try SecureFX from VanDyke Software. I've been using their SecureCRT/SecureFX combo for a year or so now and it works great. Both are command-line scriptable as needed.
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Why SSL instead of something related to SSH?
You just encrypt the passwords but not the data, if IIRC. Maybe think about something using the SSH protocol.
On Windows, the easiest solution/least expensive solution is probaby via Cygwin as another poster stated using SFTP from OpenSSH. If you need commercial software, I'd strongly recommed SecureFX from Van Dyke Software. Scriptable interface, supports FTP, SFTP and FTP over SSL. From the command line, I believe it doesn't support FTP over SSL but I could be wrong.
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Re:Push vs. Pull?
How are you going to get the windows boxes to do this without openning up SMB to the world unencrypted. (Hint you pretty much can't without a firewall box extern to windows)
I don't see why not. I've done it under NT4, and I can't imagine (well, I can imagine, but I don't think it's true) that the newer mswin versions are less functional in this regard. A quick peek at google seems to support the idea that it's possible (I haven't used an msbox for several years, but from what I see on google it appears the filtering, etc. seems to have gotten a little easier, if anything). You simply filter (block) external traffic to the port in question, so that the only access is through the tunnel.Either way you don't know what you are talking about so I suggest you clam up.
Gosh, I was thinking the same thing.-- MarkusQ
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Re:Where's PuTTY?
i agree that putty is probably the best *free* terinal emulator for windows, but there's a lot to be said for some of the commercial emulators; specifically vandyke's securecrt.
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mine are...Firefox - the best browser
Textpad - the anti-IDE I always come back to
ActiveState Perl - essential.
Komodo - the Perl IDE I'm learning to love
Trillian - universal IM client with logging
SecureCRT - SSH with lots of tunnels to protect POP, HTTP, SMTP, IM conversations from prying work eyes. Unlike putty, saves passwords quickly and easily.
Cygwin - worst. installer. ever. still, must-have linux/unix tools for windows
Photoshop - I always end up needing it.
WinKey - unfuck your Windows key
Eudora - still my favorite email client.and for Linux - postfix, squirrelmail, screen, apache, mysql, squid, php, courier-imap, rsync, cvs - in no particular order
posted this list at my blog too - First Ten Programs
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You'll forget you're driving Windoze..
SecureCRT
http://www.vandyke.com/
Indispensable window shell program, port redir, and serial terminal too (for jacking into a switch/router console port from your laptop) -
must have windows apps
Here are my most favorite windows apps. Some are free. All at least have trials. They are in no particular order.
Firewall: BlackIce
Virus Scanner: AVG Anti-Virus
Instant Messaging: Trillian
Movie Player: BSPlayer
Web Browser: Slim Browser
Mail Client: The Bat!
Taskbar Improvement: True Launcher Bar
SpyWare Protection: Spybot Search & Destroy
File Compression: Win Rar
Hex Editor: Hex Workshop
Audio Player: Winamp
Ternimal Emulator (telnet/ssh/etc): SecureCRT -
vttest - VT100 (and more) test suiteSorry to be late with this, but anyone interested in evaluating terminal emulator programs should know about the classic "vttest" program, as updated by Thomas Dickey. It compiles under OS X without any tweaking.
Of the programs mentioned in this thread that I've looked at, there's not a one that passes all the relevant tests. And Terminal.app does better than most at some of them, like the character set test and Xterm window-modify features.
My favorite terminal emulation program, PC-compatible only alas, is VanDyke's SecureCRT, which does well on vttest and comes with a nice terminal font set. (Luckily I'm at a school with a site license; regular individual price is $99.)
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Don't be so sure.
It comes with Solaris right now. You can also get it for Linux. Why?
It's useful when the ssh client has it built in because you get pretty much the same speed and the ability to download between clients.
By the way, I know about two zmodem-enabled ssh clients:
1) SecureCRT - nonfree/Windows only.
2) Zssh - open-source, cross-platform.
The actual applications which initiate the transfer are called "rz" and "sz." -
I knew it.
SecureCRT takes forever to start up.
So I suppose SP1 is to XP as beer is to me: a tool to slow your reaction time. Too bad it doesn't make XP more attractive... -
Re:PuTTY
Tried it, then tried SecureCRT, and never went back to putty.
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Check out the VanDyke products
You may want to have a look at vandyke.com; their VShell SSH server has a 'personal' edition which works very well for systems management and is cheaper than the SSH product. I've used their products for years on the server as well as client-side, and found them very reliable, as well as very well-behaved Windows services...
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Re:Tried VShell?
Damnit, I was about to post that link. All my karma are belong to you now.
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Re:Client side
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What I implemented at my companyI'm the admin for a small (lt 20 people) company so I can usually get the chance to do things right from the beginning. When the exec's asked for a way for off-site consultants to access our internal (samba) fileserver, I cringed (ohmigod, Windows VPNs, etc.) until I found SecureFX.
SecureFX implements FTP-over-SSH2 and SFTP. All I had to do was turn on "Subsystem SFTP" on the servers, give each exec a DSA key and install this program. It was ~$60/seat when we bought it - we only bought 5 seats, one for each consultant - and it's easy enough for our Windoze users handle.
Basically, it looks just like and FTP client to the user. I just set the initial directory to our samba-shared directory path and bingo! You can drag-and-drop and whatnot. Only thing to worry about is getting users to upload the file again when they've made their changes (we've had files get out of sync that way).
One annoyance - it uses SSH.COM's SSH engine so you have to generate DSA keys with the client program and convert the public key to OpenSSH format for use on the server. Minor annoyance.
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SecureFX from Vandyke Tech......It cost $59.95, but it sounds like that is what your customer wants. Software that cost money and has support.
It supports many other protocols besides SSH too.
Goto: www.vandyke.com/products/securefx
I use SecureCRT everyday and it rocks! I've never used SecureFX (thier premier file transfer program), but I get what I need from CRT and it's $30 cheaper (it's a terminal, but has z-modem).
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Re:Flashbacks (my list to add)
- Zmodem was the way to transfer files (I still use it in Linux with CRT!)
- HS/Link came along with bi-transfer support and chat during transfer
- Procomm/Qmodem/Telemate(sp?)
- Busy signals and redialing
- BBS mods like WWIV
- MUD
- Playing DOOM multiplayer (more than two players) the first time with Game Connection with MajorBBS
- You knew what "rodent" (think lamer) meant.
- Zmodem was the way to transfer files (I still use it in Linux with CRT!)
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Re:Get a real app! Re:PuTTY
Try Secure CRT
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SecureFX
My suggestion would be to go with Vandyke's SecureFX. Vandyke is the same company that brought us the beloved SecureCRT. Plus its one of the very few Windows graphical SFTP clients. It does ftp over ssl, sftp, and normal ftp with a very simple user interface. It might be alittle pricey but if you've got the money then go for it.
If you're in a UNIX shop and still want graphical you should check out gftp, I know it also does sftp. Good luck and let us know if you find any other good ones! -
Vandyke.com
For Win32 I can recommend SecureFX from Vandyke
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Why not use tunnelling
Considering you said "on behalf of the web sites that I maintain", I assume you have some degree of control on at least one site outside your ISP.
Why don't you tunnel ? Then you can use whatever port you want.
If you have SSH running on one of these servers - and who doesn't nowadays - you can easily tunnel. Just check your ssh client configurations. If you're running windows, a good client is SecureCRT. If you're running linux, and the other side is windows NT/2000/XP, use this PPtP client
And there's another advantage with tunnelling: You can compress. Unless you have a very fast connection, you'll visibly notice a speed improvement when compressing. -
Re:Features
Van Dyke Secure CRT is a really good GUI that support SSH2 with the most advanced encryption and authentication schemes (AES). My favourite features are:
- Configurable defeat of idle disconnect
- Configurable word delimiter for cut and paste
- Use Alt as Meta key for emacs.
- Can disable scroll-to-bottom on output.
- Supports OpenSSH private key format (allegedly in new versions, haven't checked)
- Login scripting
You can probably implement all those features when you use OpenSSH via an Xterm, but it would take you days to research Xwindow configuration and expect scripting language.
The only feature that command line SSH (OpenSSH and the commercial ssh.fi ssh) has is the ability to forward authentication using ssh-agent.
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I had this problem too
We had this problem too at work, our solution run CRT in wine. It was a pain to configure but works really well now after some trouble shooting. Found one other package that claims to do what you want out of the box but couldn't even get the software to run for me, it was from Pericom-Software.com. Crappy install and just all around seems like pretty poor software but your mileage may vary.
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Re:What I was sayingWe've fixed that up for 7.0. (Pick custom install and select individual packages, then don't select anything).
We're down to 30 or so packages in a minimal install.
<monty burns voice> Excellent! </monty burns voice>
My Red Hat box does serious work... file server, media center, home automation controller. No GUI required or desired. I telnet to it from my game machine (oops, Win98 box). van dyke CRT rules!
Just wanted to add my voice to the chorus... don't forget the command line -- I believe that it's the most powerful UI that we've come up with yet.
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Re:The devil is (still) in the details
I suggest that the State Department provide a list of IP addresses which they want download refused for, and no more than that. It should be possible to get the addresses connecting "Cuba, Iran, Iraq, North Korea and others considered America's foes". This is sufficiently practical to manage and can be smoothly automated. Any more than that and I will certainly see it as excessive government interference in the private sector.
You're kidding, right? I hope so. Your first paragraph stated that any terrorist can easily gain access to encryption software through alternative channels, or even from within the US itself (it isn't hard to visit the US with the sole intention of blowing up the World Trade Center).No, I'm not kidding. However the purpose is because I expect the US government to continue to have some kind of bureaucracy involved in the exporting process. That's the nature of the beast. Ideally there should be none at all. Realistically I expect there to be some, and my suggestion is what form that should be. Sorry, I should have made that clearer.
Then you casually describe a process that is sufficiently practical to manage and can be smoothly automated. Yeah, right. "Government" and "smoothly automated" should never go together. And even if our government is as capable as you feel it is, to then maintain a list of IP addresses that are from "problem" countries is impossible. And even if it was possible and feasable, it could be easily circumvented:
Of course you're right, it can easily be circumvented. The point I was making was that if the government is going to require we do something to prevent export to those countries, they should allow us to do it in a way that does not impose on those who are not in those countries. For example I just recently downloaded SecureCRT and had to fill in a form attesting that I was located in the United States. I want to get rid of that process altogether. The government may not want to get rid of all processes, hence my suggested alternative.
There is no real solution. Imposing zone-type laws on the Internet will not work in the long run. The Internet was not designed with security as the foremost thought. Reliability and more importantly a de-centralized topology were the goals.
In the long run, I expect that pro-business George W. Bush will become the next president, and these export restrictions will eventually evaporate. Even still, there will probably be some kind of restriction to those "hated" nations. I have no idea what they might be.
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The circle is now complete... (sort of)This is great news for people running *nix servers that need to be accessed securely by Windows users. Although it's a closed-source product, Vandyke has an excellent secure FTP client for Windows - SecureFX which came out a month or so ago.
Thanks to that and the OpenSSH group, I have been able to eliminate all clear-text passwords from my network, AND all my Windows users are happy!
As a note - I've been running OpenSSH 2 for about two weeks now on RedHat 6.1 with no problems.
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Re:Number two.I think they use SecureCRT at one of the offices I support. One server they link to uses ssh, the other uses ssh2. It's like $90. Maybe check their website.
I wish I could find a free one with keymapping, TeraTerm's not quite getting the job done at my office, and I can't code worth a damn.
-jpowers
You Know You've Been Watching Too Much Ranma 1/2 When...
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Re:SSH
Well, SecureCRT from Van Dyke Technologies is a pretty good SSH program for Win32. Features port forwarding (including X11 packets) for any ports you want, convenient session setup/save, etc. Very good app. Comes with good info in a help file too, so setup is pretty simple.
It's shareware. You can't download it from Van Dyke directly if you're outside the US or Canada, but if you search the "warez" sites I'm sure you can find it, it's pretty popular. If you're so inclined, you could then send Van Dyke a donation. I suppose a donation might make the anonymity of the situation disappear, but I really doubt you're going to get the FBI, NSA, etc banging on your door. After all, it's illegal for the company to export it (under US law), but not illegal for you to import it (under the laws of whatever country you're in) :-)
As for truly international Win32 SSH apps, I don't know of any. Your best bet is probably to just find a copy of a US version somewhere.
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Re:SSH windoze client? Yes! Use TeraTerm. 3.1/9x/NDo a search for TeraTerm or TeraTermPro. Then get the add-on for ssh and the crypto (Blowfish, IDEA, RSA). No source for any of this, though. Binary only. But since it's for windows, how secure could it possible be at best? If
your machine is on the net, MS can probably read your keystrokes anyway.
zow Which also provides for ssh
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Re:If only I could SSH
Yes, SecureCRT from VanDyke implements SSH protocol as well as Telnet. Very good terminal emulator.
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The hidden ESC in some terminal programs
As an avid (rabid?) vi user, I'm frustrated by the huge distance to the Esc key. Luckily, my terminal program (SecureCRT) lets me turn on an "Emacs mode", where Alt+X sends ESC X. After inserting some text, I just Alt+Enter or Alt+NextCommand and my fingers never need to leave the real keyboard.
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Re:SSH for win32 : Best is SecureCRT
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Re:SSH for win32 : Best is SecureCRT
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SSH
SecureCRT (vandyke.com) is always available for a download. Granted it dies in 30 days, but god forbid anyone should be away from their own box for that long.
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This is an insanely good thing to see...Not only is this an insanely good thing to see, but it provides an excellent opportunity to endorse ssh and pgp.
You! Reading this article! Do you use ssh and pgp? If not, why not? You're part of the problem!
If you're not using PGP (yet), drop by http://www.pgpi.com/ and have a look around. http://www.pgpi.com/cgi/download-wizard
.cgi will let you easily determine exactly which version of is appropriate for your OS and location. PGP installation is pretty straightforward and there is ample online documentation and tutorials. Not only does PGP become more useful each time a new person starts using it, but the more people we have using PGP routinely the harder it will be to remove our freedom to do so. There's no reason not to use encryption, except for inertia. And I guarantee it's not as hard to install or use as you may be thinking.Using a nice pgp-aware mailer like mutt is a nice step, too.
If you ARE using telnet or rlogin or ftp, then you have problems now and you don't even realize it. Did you realize that every time you telnet or rlogin or ftp to a remote host that you are transmitting your username and password in clear text? Sniffing passwords is a trivial task, mostly due to the widespread use of insecure protocols such as telnet. ssh is a drop-in, secure alternative for telnet, rlogin, rsh, and ftp. Not only is it secure, but it's easier to use and more featureful as well. On top of security it adds such features as compression, encrypted traffic, encrypted tunnels, and completely automatic and secure X11 forwarding. Plus with RSA Authentication you can eliminate passwords entirely. A cracker can't crack a password that doesn't exist.
Unix users can obtain ssh from ftp://ftp.cs.hut.fi/pub/ssh/ and have it up and running in a matter of minutes. I recommend the 1.2.27 version of ssh (as opposed to the v2 platform) due to licensing difficulties with the v2 platform. Non-unix users have even more options.
For Win32 there's SecureCRT (http://www.vandyke.com) which is an excellent, albeit commercial solution. There's also a very nice, free implementation of ssh which works with Tera Term. You can grab it from http://hp.vector.co.jp/author s/VA002416/teraterm.html
There's even an opensource ssh for win32 at http://www.chiark.greenend.o rg.uk/~sgtatham/putty.html although I must admit that I'm not sure I trust an ssh implementation done by a guy who refuses to implement RSA Authentication.
For Macintosh, I understand that there's a nice plug-in for NiftyTelnet at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~jon asw/freeware/niftyssh/ although I've not used it.
There's never been a better time to be more secure. Simply by installing a couple of easy-to-use applications you could be on your way to a more secure, more private computing experience. Your data is yours, and here are two ways to ensure that it stays that way.
Yeah, I ripped this shamelessly from my
.plan -- so sue me, it's still useful information...