Re: SFTP using expect.

I have got autoexpect to create a script.exp file.
yep, many, many suggestions.
I have, so far, tried the first one:
set timeout -1

testing that, it appeared to work, in that I was able to receive the
complete list of 30 files.

so my launch command string is:
chgvar var(&cmd) value('PATH=$PATH:/QOpenSys/usr/bin+
:/QOpenSys/usr/local/bin && +
set timeout -1 && +
expect -f /tmp/xxxxx/xxx/ExpectEscript')
ADDENVVAR ENVVAR(QIBM_QSH_CMD_OUTPUT) +
VALUE('FILE=/tmp/xxxxx/xxx/ExpectEexpect.log') +
REPLACE(*YES)
qsh(&CMD)

the actual script is just the spawn of sftp,
change directory,
lcd (just to have a log)
mget
quit


On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 1:09 PM Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

The modern firewalls often do packet inspection, that’s why many times the
IBM i groups won’t download, the firewall thinks it sees a program(likely
true) and boom.

Jim Oberholtzer
Agile Technology Architects

On Feb 15, 2023, at 12:02 PM, Patrik Schindler <poc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello Jim,

Am 15.02.2023 um 17:07 schrieb Jim Oberholtzer <

midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

Consider also checking your firewall settings. Many firewalls will

suspect nefarious transfers when many small files or one very large one
goes across. It happens so often with the newer firewalls it's getting to
be a knee jerk reaction.

I highly doubt that. The connection is encrypted and I'm not aware of

firewalls being aware of MITM cracking an ssh connection. Ssh is not the
same as ssl.

They *could* use heuristics to guess about the type of traffic when

watching packet rates and sizes, though.

:wq! PoC



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