Re: How to SSH-ify an application

From: Kyler Laird (Kyler@news.Lairds.org)
Date: 11/05/02 

From: Kyler Laird <Kyler@news.Lairds.org>
Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2002 16:24:14 GMT

Richard Caley <MYFIRSTNAME@MYLASTNAME.org.uk> writes:

>a) Modify it to accept commands from standard input & write to standard
> out if started under the correct name, then make it the login shell
> of a new user. ssh to that user name and you will be talking to
> this service.

...or specify it as the "command" for a key in authorized_keys.
I use SSH for transport of almost everything these days so I do
this a lot. It beats creating a new user for every little
thing.

--kyler

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