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authorDaniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>2008-07-29 09:50:33 -0400
committerDaniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>2008-07-29 09:50:33 -0400
commita354378a45cfd1afb9efa63647df244651fad2af (patch)
tree79f3c8a078ce0b53f2c2e97f30ea34c400ba24c8
parente90c5fcfae6bcc22058003f7d028fdb9ce84accb (diff)
use socat if netcat is not available from monkeysphere-ssh-proxycommand. Recommend: netcat | socat instead of just netcat.
-rw-r--r--debian/control2
-rwxr-xr-xsrc/monkeysphere-ssh-proxycommand9
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 1b6b7b5..3b2d5d0 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Dm-Upload-Allowed: yes
Package: monkeysphere
Architecture: any
Depends: openssh-client, gnupg | gnupg2, coreutils (>= 6), moreutils, lockfile-progs, adduser, ${shlibs:Depends}
-Recommends: netcat
+Recommends: netcat | socat
Enhances: openssh-client, openssh-server
Description: use the OpenPGP web of trust to verify ssh connections
SSH key-based authentication is tried-and-true, but it lacks a true
diff --git a/src/monkeysphere-ssh-proxycommand b/src/monkeysphere-ssh-proxycommand
index 9ee205a..438db87 100755
--- a/src/monkeysphere-ssh-proxycommand
+++ b/src/monkeysphere-ssh-proxycommand
@@ -83,5 +83,12 @@ monkeysphere update-known_hosts "$HOSTP"
# exec a netcat passthrough to host for the ssh connection
if [ -z "$NO_CONNECT" ] ; then
- exec nc "$HOST" "$PORT"
+ if (which nc 2>/dev/null >/dev/null); then
+ exec nc "$HOST" "$PORT"
+ elif (which socat 2>/dev/null >/dev/null); then
+ exec socat STDIO "TCP:$HOST:$PORT"
+ else
+ log "Neither netcat nor socat found -- could not complete monkeysphere-ssh-proxycommand connection to $HOST:$PORT"
+ exit 1
+ fi
fi