Re: SSH doesn't work without a user logged in?

From: Joonas Saarinen (saarinen@nospam.mbnet.fi)
Date: 12/30/01 

From: Joonas Saarinen <saarinen@nospam.mbnet.fi>
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 22:46:10 GMT

Bill Unruh wrote:
> Why in the world would you put it inot inittab and with respawn. it does
> nothing, and has no controlling terminal so would keep connecting,
> exiting, connecting, exiting, etc. What is the purpose?

I am just trying to make a plain "terminal" computer which you
can't use locally but which connects automatically to another computer
that you can use via SSH. If you disconnect, you will just get a new
connection to destination (until you shut down the computer). Is
there a more elegant way to do this?

> Remember stuff in /etc/inittab is run by root, not by you. So it is root
> who would have to be allowed in on the far side.

I changed it a bit (hopefully to better direction):

/usr/bin/acmelogin
#!/bin/sh
su - foobar

/home/foobar/.profile :
while [ 1 == 1 ];
do
        ssh -l joonas 192.168.0.1
done

It works fine when I run .profile manually from prompt, but via
/usr/bin/acmelogin it doesn't.