13.2: What happened with the shell protocol in mc?

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Hi all,

I often use the midnight commander and an easy way to transfer data between computers is the shell (fish) protocol.

In OpenSUSE 13.2 that seems missing. I had to use another computer (Ubuntu 14.04, with mc) in order to transfer data to my SUSE box.

Again, am I missing something, is it a new “feature” of mc or did SUSE stop that function? I know, the sftp option remains present, but that is heavier, it requires more administration. And the ftp option is also possible, but…

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Same question here. Cannot see SSH/Shell link option. Even kdebase4-runtime and fish.protocol installed with no luck.

Please, what can we do with this?

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Hi, I’ve downloaded mc sources from http://ftp.midnight-commander.org/mc-4.8.13.tar.bz2 extracted and compiled. Fish working again, tricky install but done compiling with

./configure --prefix=/usr
make -j 8
make install
then copy all contents from /usr/lib/mc to /usr/share/mc

Shell link working!

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Thank you, I did that also and it worked but still it remains an open question why the standard mc was modified in this release…

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Because of a bug:

* Fri Jan 10 2014 dnh@opensuse.org
- disable the ssh/fish vfs due to
  http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/3128 and
  https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=856501

and later:

* Sat Mar 15 2014 dnh@opensuse.org
- add mc-vfs_fish_helpers_ls-formatstring.diff
  fixing possible format-string attack via filename
  http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2983
  until http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/3128
  is fixed, fish should stay disabled though!
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The bug was fixed and new stable version has been released. When does new the Midnight Commander with FISH support is going to be released?

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The ticket for this is still open; http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/3128

Where did you see it being fixed? 4.8.14 which is the latest stable MC version does not have the bug fixed at least according to their changelog.

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Even worse: in the current MC 4.8.13 delivered with OpenSUSE 13.2 SFTP VFS does not work at all!

Attempts to access any server from MC-SFTP (well accessible via SSH/SFTP protocols with other software from the same machine…) results in

Impossible to access /sftp://<hostname>

I think it’s urgent to fix/activate at least one of the two VFS in MC (SFTP or FISH) because they are essential in everyday administrative work and other tasks.

Please… FISH VFS was a tool you can rely on for ages…!! :’(

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You may not have realized it, but you are responding to a thread that is over a year old. Many things have changed or have been fixed since then.

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Well, kerijan2003, I see that the previous post goes back 7 months ago and the situation I depicted is actual as the MC 4.8.13 is shipped with the last OpenSUSE version distro (13.2 - 64 bit).

Do you advise me to download the original MC tarball and compile it from scratch?