On Wed 09 Oct 2019 at 07:25:39 (-0700), pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > From: Andy Smith <a...@strugglers.net> > Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2019 23:03:14 +0000 > > It is confusing why you would need to do this to localhost as you > > could just type "bash" (or dash or zsh or whatever) to get a new > > shell. So it would help our understanding if you were to explain > > what your use case is for this new interactive shell session. > > Oberon has a client for protocol Telnet and a client for SSH. bash, > dash, sudo, rlogin and many other tools don't exist in Oberon. I > avoided discussing this deliberately. For most readers it's an > annoying digression; for some will cause mental upset. > > In most Debian situations, once a user is logged in to the system, a > shell session is opened without a password. "telnet localhost" is > analogous to that. "ssh localhost" is rarely used.
Why? sshd is modern and secure. telnetd is ancient and insecure and ought not to be on the system at all. > If sitting in a > public place, be careful that someone isn't watching when you type the > password. Why would you be typing a password after typing ssh localhost? Just type: $ cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys Cheers, David.
