It seemed like a simple enough task, write a PowerShell script to SCP files to a Unix server. There is just one problem. The .NET Framework doesn’t have a native way for doing this. That is why when I found “SharpSSH – A Secure Shell (SSH) library for .NET“, I thought that I might have a solution. So I set out to test things out:
$Null = [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFrom(“D:ScriptTamir.SharpSSH.dll”)
$SCP = New-Object Tamir.SharpSsh.scp “myhost”, “myuser”, “mypassword”
$SCP.connect()
That’s when things went south, because I got the following when trying to connect to the Unix server:
“System.InvalidOperationException: This implementation is not part of the Windows Platform FIPS validated cryptographic algorithms.”
Ahhhhhh… crap… Looks like there is a fix, but it appears that is for the .NET Framework 3.0. But, considering that the Tamir.SharpSsh stuff is using the Mentalis.org Security Library which appears to be based on 2.0 Framework I had to find another way to do SCP.
My solution was to script around my problem using WinSCP. Not the best method, but I’m almost done. I will post the script up once I’m finished. But, if anyone has any suggestions… I’m game.
