Re: [9fans] Re: Fun with sshsession

["Steven Stallion" <sstallion@gmail.com>]

> Steve,
> I'm glad to hear you got it sorted out.  Now that our fall term is
> over, I can come up for air.  But I didn't have much to add to
> your search anyway.

Hey Brian, no worries!  I've just returned from an extended holiday
break myself - I apologize for the delay in responding.

> About the only thing I've done with it since Geoff's clean-up
> was recently adding some new key exchange algorithms since
> OpenSSH no longer supports the original required KEX algorithms
> out of the box.  The server side of things was always a little
> goofy.  It does carry the fingerprints of being developed to
> allow customers to ssh into appliances that didn't share an
> auth server.  I never got around to doing much aimed at making
> it natural for non-Plan 9 clients to log into a full Plan 9
> environment with ssh.  There never seemed to be a lot of motivation
> because drawterm seemed to provide a better interface.  The
> main exception would be using sam -r from a non-Plan 9 system.

To be honest, the current implementation does precisely what I need it
to do - run an rc script from a non-Plan 9 host in the event of sudden
power loss with no frills or embellishment.  It's made life quite a
bit nicer now that I've moved venti over to a BSD system in the rack.

> Not that any of that is relevant to the issue you ran into, but
> it might help provide a little context to anyone wondering how
> and why that implementation works the way it does.

That makes perfect sense. Thanks again for following up!

Cheers,
Steve


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