Finally, Infrant has updated its firmware to include support for SSH. Sadly it wasn't the kind of support I was hoping for. You can enable root access and shell in for various tasks. But you cannot, via the web interface, initiate backups over scp or simply rsync over ssh from the Infrant server, from what I can tell.
That said, you can now sftp or scp into the Infrant. I guess that's better than nothing. But first it is wise to give your account a shell, usermode is your friend there.
But, exposing your Infrant ssh port to the world is not apparently a good idea. It seems if someone guesses (or knows) your serial number, and know the magic algorithm, they can shell into your box. See this advisory.
But it looks like to me, when I enable root access for myself, it disables the support access as no other accounts in /etc/passwd have a shell. Curious...
One major hurtle to having ssh into your Infrant be useful is the fact that it runs on a SPARC processor. Either you must build a cross compiler, or find binaries already built.
Now if Perforce would release a Linux SPARC binary, I would like to think I could run it on my resource constrained device. This issue just might be the thing that pushes me over the edge to using git.
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