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Subject: Re: [9front] SSH server?
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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.