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Rewrite faq-server to acknowledge Uppity.

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Jacob Nevins 2019-03-16 00:03:25 +00:00
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@ -173,17 +173,21 @@ time by double-clicking or using \c{REGEDIT}.
\S{faq-server}{Question} Will you write an SSH server for the PuTTY \S{faq-server}{Question} Will you write an SSH server for the PuTTY
suite, to go with the client? suite, to go with the client?
No. The only reason we might want to would be if we could easily Not one that you'd want to use.
re-use existing code and significantly cut down the effort. We don't
believe this is the case; there just isn't enough common ground
between an SSH client and server to make it worthwhile.
If someone else wants to use bits of PuTTY in the process of writing While much of the protocol and networking code can be made common
a Windows SSH server, they'd be perfectly welcome to of course, but between a client and server, to make a \e{useful} general-purpose
I really can't see it being a lot less effort for us to do that than server requires all sorts of fiddly new code like interacting with OS
it would be for us to write a server from the ground up. We don't authentication databases and the like.
have time, and we don't have motivation. The code is available if
anyone else wants to try it. A special-purpose SSH server (called \i{Uppity}) can now be built from
the PuTTY source code, and indeed it is not usable as a
general-purpose server; it exists mainly as a test harness.
If someone else wants to use this as a basis for writing a
general-purpose SSH server, they'd be perfectly welcome to of course;
but we don't have time, and we don't have motivation. The code is
available if anyone else wants to try it.
\S{faq-pscp-ascii}{Question} Can PSCP or PSFTP transfer files in \S{faq-pscp-ascii}{Question} Can PSCP or PSFTP transfer files in
\i{ASCII} mode? \i{ASCII} mode?