From a354378a45cfd1afb9efa63647df244651fad2af Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:50:33 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] use socat if netcat is not available from
 monkeysphere-ssh-proxycommand.  Recommend: netcat | socat instead of just
 netcat.

---
 debian/control                    | 2 +-
 src/monkeysphere-ssh-proxycommand | 9 ++++++++-
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 1b6b7b5..3b2d5d0 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Dm-Upload-Allowed: yes
 Package: monkeysphere
 Architecture: any
 Depends: openssh-client, gnupg | gnupg2, coreutils (>= 6), moreutils, lockfile-progs, adduser, ${shlibs:Depends}
-Recommends: netcat
+Recommends: netcat | socat
 Enhances: openssh-client, openssh-server
 Description: use the OpenPGP web of trust to verify ssh connections
  SSH key-based authentication is tried-and-true, but it lacks a true
diff --git a/src/monkeysphere-ssh-proxycommand b/src/monkeysphere-ssh-proxycommand
index 9ee205a..438db87 100755
--- a/src/monkeysphere-ssh-proxycommand
+++ b/src/monkeysphere-ssh-proxycommand
@@ -83,5 +83,12 @@ monkeysphere update-known_hosts "$HOSTP"
 
 # exec a netcat passthrough to host for the ssh connection
 if [ -z "$NO_CONNECT" ] ; then
-    exec nc "$HOST" "$PORT"
+    if (which nc 2>/dev/null >/dev/null); then
+	exec nc "$HOST" "$PORT"
+    elif (which socat 2>/dev/null >/dev/null); then
+	exec socat STDIO "TCP:$HOST:$PORT"
+    else
+	log "Neither netcat nor socat found -- could not complete monkeysphere-ssh-proxycommand connection to $HOST:$PORT"
+	exit 1
+    fi
 fi
-- 
2.25.1