Re: [Sheflug] headless

["Ian Wright" <nospam [at] iw63.freeserve.co.uk>]

Thanks everyone,

Perhaps I should have described my problem more fully. What it is is that I
have the RH6.2 box running a machine tool which I want to put in my workshop
but I don't have room in there for a full machine/monitor/keyboard/mouse
setup. Ideally, I want to shove the RH6.2 machine down the back of the bench
and just switch it on and off at the plug and then be able to access it and
drive the relevant software from the comfort of my living room or maybe from
a laptop if I can find one cheap enough. I have a network set up and can
work the thing via ssh from another linux box or by vnc from the windoze
box - I just need to get rid of all the bits and pieces attached to the box
which aren't essential. I'm not too bothered about the security issues as
only me and the missus use the network and my link to the outside world has
a proxy on it but ssh seems pretty stable so I'm happy to use it.

Ian
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Ian W. Wright
Sheffield  UK
www.iw63.freeserve.co.uk
----- Original Message -----
From: "Guennadi Liakhovetski" >
> Hmmm What's the point in using ssh then if you don't use password?:-) I
> know - your session gets encripted, but now anybody can do ssh -l <user>
> <machine>:-) (I assume '.' in '.ssh' is a typo). Unless you use some sort
> of host-based authentication (or setup directory permissions as
> Alex just pointed out)... BTW, you can do that with rlogin - but then no
> encription...


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