Because all those extra features are really useful. You can run all sorts of things over ssh, from sophisticated file transfer to remote development and tunneling
Ssh is remote code execution. Under any implementation, any authentication methods should be the absolute last line of defense after you’ve properly locked down access
Well, yeah but more features in remote code excution = more vulnerabilities. For example sftp: you could also just run ftp over vpn for the same effect. Or just cat the file over ssh. Instead, we have one big monolith.
SFTP is just FTP over SSH… Also, FTP is essentially one small step away from code execution, even on a secure network it’s better to use SFTP
SSH isn’t many things, it’s one connection type through which you can do many things. You can’t simply cat a file over without being able to handle the throughput gracefully, otherwise you’d have to design a new layer to do exactly the same thing. The same for reading files, if it can’t gracefully spit out 10k lines in a second you couldn’t handle output
And if you can do all that, why not allow VIM over the same connection? You’re already going to have to manage the terminal session, why not fully reflect a terminal?
FTP is absolutely not the answer, but a server that will conditionally serve files as well as conditionally accept uploads is far more secure. The same for everything… If you want to manage users, instead of allowing remote code execution you should use an API to perform predefined tasks
SSH isn’t meant for security or production use, it’s meant for power and flexibility. It’s generally deactivated by default for a reason, but it’s included for a reason too. It’s just really damn useful
imo it does not really matter how many lines is the openssh codebase, but how many lines of it deals with authentication/authorization and decryption of the incoming traffic.
then it can have all the features, but any bugs in them can only be abused by clients that were allowed access.
still, the related part of Wireguard’s codebase is likely much shorter, because it does not have multiple authentication methods and key algorithms, and whatever else. but then it still makes sense to use sftp over wireguard, because of its authentication inside the network and relative ease of use.
Why aren’t there more minimal implementations like tinyssh?
Because all those extra features are really useful. You can run all sorts of things over ssh, from sophisticated file transfer to remote development and tunneling
Ssh is remote code execution. Under any implementation, any authentication methods should be the absolute last line of defense after you’ve properly locked down access
Well, yeah but more features in remote code excution = more vulnerabilities.
For example sftp: you could also just run ftp over vpn for the same effect. Or just cat the file over ssh.Instead, we have one big monolith.SFTP is just FTP over SSH… Also, FTP is essentially one small step away from code execution, even on a secure network it’s better to use SFTP
SSH isn’t many things, it’s one connection type through which you can do many things. You can’t simply cat a file over without being able to handle the throughput gracefully, otherwise you’d have to design a new layer to do exactly the same thing. The same for reading files, if it can’t gracefully spit out 10k lines in a second you couldn’t handle output
And if you can do all that, why not allow VIM over the same connection? You’re already going to have to manage the terminal session, why not fully reflect a terminal?
FTP is absolutely not the answer, but a server that will conditionally serve files as well as conditionally accept uploads is far more secure. The same for everything… If you want to manage users, instead of allowing remote code execution you should use an API to perform predefined tasks
SSH isn’t meant for security or production use, it’s meant for power and flexibility. It’s generally deactivated by default for a reason, but it’s included for a reason too. It’s just really damn useful
Ok, maybe i misunderstood ssh.
imo it does not really matter how many lines is the openssh codebase, but how many lines of it deals with authentication/authorization and decryption of the incoming traffic.
then it can have all the features, but any bugs in them can only be abused by clients that were allowed access.
still, the related part of Wireguard’s codebase is likely much shorter, because it does not have multiple authentication methods and key algorithms, and whatever else. but then it still makes sense to use sftp over wireguard, because of its authentication inside the network and relative ease of use.
There’s Dropbear SSH, which is the most common choice for a minimal SSH server and client, but even that is around 50,000 lines of code.