[mosh-devel] Question about using subsystem like sftp.

[john hood]

Yes, that's correct.  Mosh only supports interactive terminal sessions-- 
it is a networked virtual terminal, and doesn't support any kind of 
reliable byte stream, which you would need for sftp.

regards,

   --jh

On 7/13/18 12:25 AM, Stef Bon wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm working on a project which offers automatic access to users to
> fileservices like smb,nfs and sftp using avahi for detection and fuse.
> And I wrote my own ssh and sftp clients. The simple public key auth
> works (serverkey in
> ~/.ssh/known_hosts and users public key in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on
> server ) I'm testing openssh certificates and wanting to make it work
> with yubikey and nitrokey. I'm also very interested in making this
> work with centralized adiminstration.
>
> Now I've posted on the openssh dev  list about using udp for data, and
> someone pointed me to mosh. It's very good to find out! Mosh looks a
> lot what I'm looking for.
>
> I want to use mosh for a subsystem like sftp. I read in the README.md
> on github that port forwarding is not supported. Does that mean that
> subsystems like sftp are not supported (yet)?
>
> Stef Bon
> Voorburg
> the Netherlands
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