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From: ori@eigenstate.org
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] SSH server?
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2022 13:16:18 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <C8C85183FACBC09EE729205078716621@eigenstate.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k0er52bo.fsf@turtle-trading.net>

Quoth Benjamin Riefenstahl <b.riefenstahl@turtle-trading.net>:
> Hi Steve,
> 
> Steve Simon writes:
> > I believe the drawterm that 9front uses can run headless.
> 
> Sure, that is what we currently use as a go-between for SSH.  It had to
> be hacked to better isolate the 9front machine from the rest of the
> network, but that already works.
> 
> > wouldn't this be a better solution (using native plan9 protocols)
> > rather than importing ssh?
> 
> This build farm also serves a number of other systems.  like primarily
> Linux and BSDs.  9front is the one that requires a special setup in the
> framework.  This is implemented, but it's suboptimal and it produces its
> own bugs.  It would be better IMO to handle Plan 9 as any other system.
> That's why I'm asking.  And that's also why suggesting some other tool
> in general is not an answer to my question, sorry :-(.
> 
> Thanks, benny
> 

Yeah. an ssh server would e nice to have (I'd use it to
serve repos for unix access on shithub), but there's no
great one ready to go. The best option mentioned is by
sigrid.


      parent reply	other threads:[~2022-01-23 10:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-21 14:36 Benjamin Riefenstahl
2022-01-21 15:04 ` Stanley Lieber
2022-01-21 15:35   ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2022-01-21 15:18 ` Sigrid Solveig Haflínudóttir
2022-01-22 13:28   ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2022-01-21 16:23 ` Steve Simon
2022-01-21 21:59   ` Thaddeus Woskowiak
2022-01-22  8:50     ` sirjofri
2022-01-22 13:26   ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2022-01-22 17:35     ` Steve Simon
2022-01-22 18:16     ` ori [this message]

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