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\S{faq-server}{Question} Will you write an SSH server for the PuTTY
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suite, to go with the client?
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No. The only reason we might want to would be if we could easily
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re-use existing code and significantly cut down the effort. We don't
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believe this is the case; there just isn't enough common ground
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between an SSH client and server to make it worthwhile.
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Not one that you'd want to use.
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If someone else wants to use bits of PuTTY in the process of writing
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a Windows SSH server, they'd be perfectly welcome to of course, but
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I really can't see it being a lot less effort for us to do that than
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it would be for us to write a server from the ground up. We don't
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have time, and we don't have motivation. The code is available if
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anyone else wants to try it.
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While much of the protocol and networking code can be made common
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between a client and server, to make a \e{useful} general-purpose
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server requires all sorts of fiddly new code like interacting with OS
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authentication databases and the like.
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A special-purpose SSH server (called \i{Uppity}) can now be built from
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the PuTTY source code, and indeed it is not usable as a
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general-purpose server; it exists mainly as a test harness.
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If someone else wants to use this as a basis for writing a
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general-purpose SSH server, they'd be perfectly welcome to of course;
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but we don't have time, and we don't have motivation. The code is
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available if anyone else wants to try it.
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\S{faq-pscp-ascii}{Question} Can PSCP or PSFTP transfer files in
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\i{ASCII} mode?
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