Re: [Sheflug] headless

[Dave Mimno <nospam [at] mimno.org>]

There's no real difference between logging on to your linux box from the 
console and from the network. As soon as you boot, a process will start up 
that will present a login: prompt to the screen. It doesn't affect the ssh 
server. The process, by the way, will be happy to present it's prompt 
indefinitely, whether or not there is an actual monitor.

Try this:

Turn on the box, don't log in, and then ssh in from a different computer. 
That's what you're really trying to do, right? Now just take away the 
monitor. Take away the keyboard too, if you feel like it, but it probably 
doesn't take up much space.

You also probably want to change to runlevel 3 (multi-user, no X, I 
think?), since you don't need X windows, and it's a hog...

On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 07:30:58PM -0000, Ian Wright wrote:
> 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
> --
> 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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