From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Largent Subject: Re: feature-full ssh gui? Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 11:52:18 -0500 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3E316F42.8060602@imagelinks.com> References: <5.1.1.6.0.20030124071543.01c89248@mustang> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <5.1.1.6.0.20030124071543.01c89248@mustang> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-admin Instead of setting up ssh to bypass passwords, set it up to use ssh-agent and ~/.ssh/authorized_hosts. You can start the agent at login, it asks for your ssh passphrase verifies it againt the keys, when you ssh to a host if your pub key is in the authorized_hosts file the agent will provide the authenication. Scott Taylor wrote: > At 03:32 AM 1/24/03, you wrote: > >> is there any decent ssh gui/front-end available? > > > xterm > >> one that would perhaps allow something like: >> -built-in sz/rz support > > > scp? > >> -saving of passwords > > > ssh can be setup to bypass passwords. > >> -execute certain commands/scripts upon login > > > .bashrc > > /etc/profile > >> so, basically, something like secureCRT but for linux... > > > SecureCRT tries to mimic all the wonderful tools you have in unices, not > the other way around. Linux just has the tools and if you must use a > GUI client then xterm should do the job for you. Otherwise you could > set up wine to run SecureCRT. {shudder} > > Scott. > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > -- Jeff Largent ImageLinks, Inc. Sr System Admin Melbourne, Fl 32935 (321) 253-0011 fax:(321) 253-5559