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On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> Things seem to have shaped up pretty well for putting BL3 on the laptop
> I've spoken of in recent posts. I'm pretty sure I'll go ahead with it. One
> thing that's come up missing so far as needed programs, however, is scp
> (secure copy). I've really come to rely on this utility for file transfers
> on my LAN, as well as to and from my shell account on the WAN or to/from
> my home computer when I'm away. In my tests of BL3, it's turning more
> and more into a rough spot in typical use.
>
> Is anyone up for compiling and making available an scp package for BL? I
> could probably get one from a later Slack version--on the assumption that
> the later the version the more secure it's likely to be. But I'm not
> certain at the outset whether I might run into dependency issues in
> following that course of action. By the same token, scp might make a nice,
> though minor enhancement to BL3. Anyone up for this? As with naim, I'll be
> happy to test out the results.

I already compiled it, for glibc 2.2.5 (the same library needed for Opera) 
or later.  It is part of the dropbear package, which also includes 
dbclient, smaller than ssh and works as well for me.

http://keesan.freeshell.org/bl/dropbear-0.49-glibc225.tgz (I compiled and 
posted this just over a year ago so may not be the latest version, but it 
works fine).

scp is 20K, dbclient 115K (for some reason I have it in /usr/local/bin but 
symlinked to /usr/bin).  Both in the same package.   Do you want 
dbclient.1 posted as well, or the README?  I can make a larger package. 
README speaks of ssh authorized keys.  Steven's uclibc ssh is 285K.

I usually use ftpput, ftpget, wget instead (but they do require ftpd and 
httpd at the other end).

scp requires that you give your password every time (or go through some 
complex setup procedure).

Ask and you shall receive (or search the archives first).


Sindi

> Thanks,
> James