OK. I need to give SSH access to my machine to about 10/20 people. They mostly use windows, some use Mac, and some sensible ones use GNU/Linux. Most are not "technically disposed". My basic idea is to use Java for them to do this- there is no xserver on this machine btw. MindTerm springs to mind... however the source code is no longer available. I would accept a BSD or (l)GPL license, however, looking at the freshmeat page:- "the license of the SSH2 package has not been decided and hence the license of MindTerm v1.99 can't be GPL (or anything else for that matter) until this is decided. The license will be decided before the end of this year, until then the v1.99 will be a demo with a restricted license and no source code will be made available. All code up to and including v1.2.1 is and will of course be GPL." ( http://freshmeat.net/projects/mindterm/?topic_id=913 ) All source code and previous versions have been removed. However, MacSSH is SSH2 only, and has been released under GPL: http://pro.wanadoo.fr/chombier/ I would like advice on this subject. Should I just implement SSH v1 and thus be able to go via the Java route, or should I wait for a Java SSH2 client. Hmm. I'm a little confused. -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze
You can try Putty for the windows bods.. Works great.. http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ Simon On Friday 24 May 2002 2:44 pm, Ricardo Campos wrote:
OK. I need to give SSH access to my machine to about 10/20 people. They mostly use windows, some use Mac, and some sensible ones use GNU/Linux. Most are not "technically disposed".
My basic idea is to use Java for them to do this- there is no xserver on this machine btw. MindTerm springs to mind... however the source code is no longer available. I would accept a BSD or (l)GPL license, however, looking at the freshmeat page:-
"the license of the SSH2 package has not been decided and hence the license of MindTerm v1.99 can't be GPL (or anything else for that matter) until this is decided. The license will be decided before the end of this year, until then the v1.99 will be a demo with a restricted license and no source code will be made available. All code up to and including v1.2.1 is and will of course be GPL."
( http://freshmeat.net/projects/mindterm/?topic_id=913 )
All source code and previous versions have been removed. However, MacSSH is SSH2 only, and has been released under GPL: http://pro.wanadoo.fr/chombier/
I would like advice on this subject. Should I just implement SSH v1 and thus be able to go via the Java route, or should I wait for a Java SSH2 client. Hmm. I'm a little confused.
To save someone else bashing me, I'll do it myself now. Having checked my facts, Putty isn't available for Mac OS. Damn. Ricardo, you could always try to persuade them to upgrade to OS X, thus sneaking them into the Free World. Alexis -- The early bird gets the worm. The second mouse gets the cheese. - Jen Hopkins The more you know, the more you know you don't know. Corollary: Those who know nothing think they know everything. Sometimes the blind man sees clearest.
On 24 May 2002, Alexis Lee wrote:
To save someone else bashing me, I'll do it myself now. Having checked my facts, Putty isn't available for Mac OS. Damn.
Ricardo, you could always try to persuade them to upgrade to OS X, thus sneaking them into the Free World.
Sorry, I haven't been paying attention but if you are looking for an SSH client for MacOS and somebody hasn't already mentioned it, try: http://www.lysator.liu.se/~jonasw/freeware/niftyssh/ Does SCP as well. -- David Redhouse, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge 0787 6372962 dir21@cam.ac.uk http://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/
On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 10:44, Ricardo Campos wrote:
OK. I need to give SSH access to my machine to about 10/20 people. They mostly use windows, some use Mac, and some sensible ones use GNU/Linux. Most are not "technically disposed".
I assume you haven't heard of PuTTY? It runs on Windows and Mac OS and provides SSH 2 including public-key authentication. The enlightened ones will already be using OpenSSH ;-) Alexis -- The last 20% always takes 80% of the time. Recursively. The early bird gets the worm. The second mouse gets the cheese. - Jen Hopkins "The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there." - RM Pirsig
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