Re: setting a tty to login to remote computer via ssh

2001-10-04 Thread Shriram Shrikumar
--- Mike Alborn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > init uses getty (or some variant - check /etc/inittab) to spawn a > terminal, and getty spawns /bin/login to produce the prompt and handle > user logins. getty can be instructed to spawn a different program with > the -l option. Perhaps if you put an en

Re: setting a tty to login to remote computer via ssh

2001-10-03 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Shriram Shrikumar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011003 11:09]: > Hi All, > > just wondering if it was possible to set one of the tty's like tty8 to login > to > another machine via ssh instead of just to the local machine. Haven't done this, but check out the manpage for getty. The -l option looks like

Re: setting a tty to login to remote computer via ssh

2001-10-03 Thread martin f krafft
how about an account with zero-password (or password=username), whose shell is a shell script (careful with those), asking for the username, and spawning ssh. it would be better to get getty to do this, though... -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto:

Re: setting a tty to login to remote computer via ssh

2001-10-03 Thread Jacques Normand
Shriram Shrikumar wrote: > Hi All, > > just wondering if it was possible to set one of the tty's like tty8 to login > to > another machine via ssh instead of just to the local machine. It is possible by editing the inittab (/etc/inittab) but it will set a pb if you need a password to set the con

Re: setting a tty to login to remote computer via ssh

2001-10-03 Thread Mike Alborn
On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 11:08:47AM -0700, Shriram Shrikumar wrote: > Hi All, > > just wondering if it was possible to set one of the tty's like tty8 to login > to > another machine via ssh instead of just to the local machine. Just a quick 2sec search, but this might point you in the right direc

setting a tty to login to remote computer via ssh

2001-10-03 Thread Shriram Shrikumar
Hi All, just wondering if it was possible to set one of the tty's like tty8 to login to another machine via ssh instead of just to the local machine. thanx in advance. Shri __ Do You Yahoo!? Listen to your Yahoo! Mail messages from any phone. http