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Wednesday, January 17th 2007, 6:27pm

fish protocol outlawed(!) by server admin

Hello KDE users.
[I am using Konqueror 3.5.5-0.2.fc5 and KDE 3.5.5-0.2.fc5 ]
I discovered fish protocol on Konqueror and I loved using it to edit my web sites on a shared server (Red Hat). Now, all of a sudden the administrator tells me I'm using illegal software. He cut off my domain. He made me explain what I was doing and turned it on again later but made me promise not to "attempt it again". I'm pasting below the log portion that he gave me from the server.
Questions:
Does the log below look normal for fish?
Does it really appear I was trying to do mischief on the shared server?
Thanks. Joe

Below EDITED for anonymity:

root@sharedserver [~]# ps aux | grep myuser
root 3978 0.0 0.0 8740 2192 ? Ss 15:28 0:00 sshd: myusername [priv]
myusername 3990 0.0 0.0 8900 1692 ? S 15:28 0:00 sshd: myusername@notty
myusername 4001 0.0 0.0 2260 876 ? S 15:28 0:00 /bin/sh -c if env true 2>/dev/null; then env PS1= PS2= TZ=UTC LANG=C LC_ALL=C LOCALE=C /bin/sh; else PS1= PS2= TZ=UTC LANG=C LC_ALL=C LOCALE=C /bin/sh; fi
myusername 4008 0.0 0.0 3896 876 ? S 15:28 0:00 /bin/sh
myusername 4010 0.0 0.0 3596 2296 ? S 15:28 0:00 perl .fishsrv.pl 0244d15801f8ad4c0f1c342a63f17f4b
root 19500 0.0 0.0 4372 676 pts/2 S+ 15:43 0:00 grep myuser
root@sharedserver [~]# cd /proc/4008
root@sharedserver [/proc/4008]# ls -la
total 0
dr-xr-xr-x 3 myusername myusername 0 Jan 16 15:29 ./
dr-xr-xr-x 288 root root 0 Dec 15 10:49 ../
dr-xr-xr-x 2 myusername myusername 0 Jan 16 15:43 attr/
-r-------- 1 myusername myusername 0 Jan 16 15:43 auxv
-r--r--r-- 1 myusername myusername 0 Jan 16 15:30 cmdline
lrwxrwxrwx 1 myusername myusername 0 Jan 16 15:43 cwd -> /home/virtfs/myusername/home/myusername/
-r-------- 1 myusername myusername 0 Jan 16 15:43 environ
lrwxrwxrwx 1 myusername myusername 0 Jan 16 15:30 exe -> /home/virtfs/myusername/bin/bash*
dr-x------ 2 myusername myusername 0 Jan 16 15:43 fd/
-rw-r--r-- 1 myusername myusername 0 Jan 16 15:43 loginuid
-r-------- 1 myusername myusername 0 Jan 16 15:43 maps
-rw------- 1 myusername myusername 0 Jan 16 15:43 mem
-r--r--r-- 1 myusername myusername 0 Jan 16 15:43 mounts
lrwxrwxrwx 1 myusername myusername 0 Jan 16 15:43 root -> /home/virtfs/myusername/
-r--r--r-- 1 myusername myusername 0 Jan 16 15:29 stat
-r--r--r-- 1 myusername myusername 0 Jan 16 15:29 statm
-r--r--r-- 1 myusername myusername 0 Jan 16 15:30 status
dr-xr-xr-x 3 myusername myusername 0 Jan 16 15:43 task/
-r--r--r-- 1 myusername myusername 0 Jan 16 15:43 wchan
root@sharedserver [/proc/4008]# cd /proc/4010
root@sharedserver [/proc/4010]# ls -la
total 0
dr-xr-xr-x 3 myusername myusername 0 Jan 16 15:28 ./
dr-xr-xr-x 286 root root 0 Dec 15 10:49 ../
dr-xr-xr-x 2 myusername myusername 0 Jan 16 15:43 attr/
-r-------- 1 myusername myusername 0 Jan 16 15:43 auxv
-r--r--r-- 1 myusername myusername 0 Jan 16 15:30 cmdline
lrwxrwxrwx 1 myusername myusername 0 Jan 16 15:43 cwd -> /home/virtfs/myusername/home/myusername/
-r-------- 1 myusername myusername 0 Jan 16 15:43 environ
lrwxrwxrwx 1 myusername myusername 0 Jan 16 15:28 exe -> /home/virtfs/myusername/usr/bin/perl*
dr-x------ 2 myusername myusername 0 Jan 16 15:43 fd/
-rw-r--r-- 1 myusername myusername 0 Jan 16 15:43 loginuid
-r-------- 1 myusername myusername 0 Jan 16 15:43 maps
-rw------- 1 myusername myusername 0 Jan 16 15:43 mem
-r--r--r-- 1 myusername myusername 0 Jan 16 15:43 mounts
lrwxrwxrwx 1 myusername myusername 0 Jan 16 15:43 root -> /home/virtfs/myusername/
-r--r--r-- 1 myusername myusername 0 Jan 16 15:29 stat
-r--r--r-- 1 myusername myusername 0 Jan 16 15:29 statm
-r--r--r-- 1 myusername myusername 0 Jan 16 15:30 status
dr-xr-xr-x 3 myusername myusername 0 Jan 16 15:43 task/
-r--r--r-- 1 myusername myusername 0 Jan 16 15:43 wchan

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Thursday, January 18th 2007, 11:20am

RE: fish protocol outlawed(!) by server admin

I think your sysadmin should define "illegal".
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Thursday, January 18th 2007, 2:54pm

I guess he saw "root" in the log and thought it was a hacker.
I really don't think he understands "fish". I am trying to understand it too.
(Previously I did not know fish uses a perl script on the remote server. I thought it was just ssh or ssh2)
He told me to use scp or sftp.

Joe

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Thursday, January 18th 2007, 7:37pm

fish is just the name of the kioslave that lets you acces remote computers over ssh.
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