On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Yuri Robbers wrote:
Sometimes I have to remotely log into a system (SuSE :o) of mine from a machine that doesn't come with ssh. That's why I tend to carry ssh client binaries for a number of OS's with me most of the time. I'd like to add some more of those to my collection. Does anyone know where to find or how to compile ssh binaries on any of these OS's: VMS, DOS, AmigaOS, Acorn RISC-OS and Mac-OS? For VMS I would be interested in having an ssh server too...
For MacOS I can recommend Nifty Telnet-SSH. If that server (or another you're running) has a web server a good approach to consider is setting up Mindbright's[0] MindTerm (Java SSH client - there's also a server available) on a web page. At that point if you've got a Java capable browser (which may be just as much of a pain for some of those platforms) you've got SSH access. If you do a lot of remote admin work this is pretty convenient even for platforms like Unix and Windows where SSH implementations are (cheap|free) and widely available. You're still vulnerable to keystroke loggers, etc. on an untrusted machine, but at least you're not sending passwords in the clear. The main issue to be aware of is code-signing - I believe that if you don't code-sign the app or have Mindbright do it (big money) you can only contact the server it's on - but you can always download it and use it with a JRE/JDK as a normal application. Note that their "free for personal use" includes you putting it up for your own use on your own initiative even in a commercial setting - they even specifically give setting it up on your own machine so you can connect to it from outside as an example. FSF compatible it's not, but the terms are lenient and usable. Jonathan Conway [0] http://www.mindbright.se/