Re: Linux local commands over ssh through nse

[ericisriot1 <ericisriot1 () gmail com>]

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devin bjelland <devinbjelland () gmail com> wrote:

> To summarize the status of the the ssh scripts, the branch is located at /nmap-exp/devin/nmap-libssh2 and works on 
> *nix systems. We decided to use libssh2 since ssh2 is a rather complicated protocol. One problem was that libssh2 
> wants to manage the socket itself and we wanted to reuse the existing nsock socket pool. 
> Our solution was to filter the data through a socketpair and then pass the data to nsock. I found an implementation of 
> socketpair for windows and the plan is to use that to allow windows support. I have been busy with school so I haven't 
> gotten around to finishing this. Another problem was that calls to the nsock receive would sometimes return EOF. We 
> think this is related to filtering the data through the socketpair but neither my mentor Patrick nor I have been able 
> to get to the bottom of this yet. In the mean time the scripts are useable though the brute force script has poor 
> performance compared to alternatives. See the email d33tah linked to for usage instructions. 
> Cheers,
> Devin 
>
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 7:41 AM, Jacek Wielemborek <d33tah () gmail com> wrote:
> W dniu 16.02.2015 o 13:33, Pro Gupta pisze:
> > Dear Developers,
> > Currently, when going through nmap's Script Ideas list I came across a
> > topic of running linux commands over ssh connection using nse and
> > libssh . I really like the idea and would really like to work on it.
> > Please share some information if already some work is going on.
>
> Hello,
> Generally, I would suggest to flick through the mailing list archives
> since GSoC 2014. Here's one thread I remember:
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