OpenSSH accessing remote servers

At the moment OpenSSH is server-centric in that you need to run OpenSSH 
on the servers where users need secure access to their files.

Are there any plans to enable OpenSSH to run on a single server and then 
access files on remote servers along the lines of Netstorage, FTP, 
Apache, etc. ?

We're very interested in using OpenSSH, specifically the SFTP part (as 
opposed to SSH/SCP) to provide students with secure access to their 
filespace from remote locations (bedroom stations & outside the 
University) but we do not want to have to run OpenSSH on each of our 
home servers (we currently have 4 with users split across them).

Many thanks,

Hi Simon,
Simon Flood <S.M.Flood@ucs.cam.ac.uk> wrote in
news:OGoQc.3160$8%5.512@prv-
forum2.provo.novell.com:

> At the moment OpenSSH is server-centric in that you need to run OpenSSH 
> on the servers where users need secure access to their files.
> 
> Are there any plans to enable OpenSSH to run on a single server and then 
> access files on remote servers along the lines of Netstorage, FTP, 
> Apache, etc. ?
> 
> We're very interested in using OpenSSH, specifically the SFTP part (as 
> opposed to SSH/SCP) to provide students with secure access to their 
> filespace from remote locations (bedroom stations & outside the 
> University) but we do not want to have to run OpenSSH on each of our 
> home servers (we currently have 4 with users split across them).
not the solution to your question; but just an idea: perhaps you can use 
WebDAV over https?

Guenter.

On Thu, 05 Aug 2004 11:17:02 GMT, Simon Flood <S.M.Flood@ucs.cam.ac.uk>  
wrote:

> At the moment OpenSSH is server-centric in that you need to run OpenSSH  
> on the servers where users need secure access to their files.
>
> Are there any plans to enable OpenSSH to run on a single server and then  
> access files on remote servers along the lines of Netstorage, FTP,  
> Apache, etc. ?
>
> We're very interested in using OpenSSH, specifically the SFTP part (as  
> opposed to SSH/SCP) to provide students with secure access to their  
> filespace from remote locations (bedroom stations & outside the  
> University) but we do not want to have to run OpenSSH on each of our  
> home servers (we currently have 4 with users split across them).
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Simon

George Raetzke wrote:

> nwftpd.nlm includes now include support for sftp...

No, it does not. nwftpd.nlm supports ftps which is something totally
different.

On 05/08/2004 14:27, Guenter Knauf, DevNet SysOp 32 wrote:

> not the solution to your question; but just an idea: perhaps you can use 
> WebDAV over https?

I'll look into it but it's really SFTP that we want to use (as this is 
what is used to access other Unix systems).