[plug] remote terminal

[I am the LinuxAlien]

Well my attempts have failed. I can't write scripts for much, mainly basic 
bash scripts. I can't even get it its own tty. Can you help me? I don't 
care if it is only a telnet login. even if it doesn't require password, 
that would be preferable,
1. grab tty
2. login to 192.168.0.1 using stored pass and username
3. use as remote terminal.
* user account on other machine will exist, so say have the username as 
'remote' the password as 'password'?

Tim
p.s. What language is the script written in and what man pages do i need to 
look at to learn it?
At 16:44 31/07/2002 +0800, you wrote:
>>I wish to have it similar to an xterm, but as a text terminal.
>
>OK, I think I get you now.
>
>Try a script that waits for the user to input a username before connecting 
>to the server using "ssh -l $USERNAME $SERVER" where those vars have been 
>set appropriately already. You can set this script to run from inittab on 
>a couple of vts.
>
>>Maybe booting form the network is what I want. Can you send some 
>>instructions then craig?
>Done but I meant it when i said some assmbly required. And then some more...
>
>That is to say, as I wrote it up I realised just how complex it had become 
>and just how unprepared I am to explain how to get everything working yet.
>
>Try ltsp (http://www.ltsp.org).
>
>I'm not just BSing here, I do have this working and am now taking what I 
>wrote as an explanation for "linuxalien" and turning it into some 
>documentation. Once that's done and I've solved the main issues remaining 
>(getting NFS mounts to work _really_ early in boot and putting in the swap 
>setup bits) I can post it on the web for those interested in a manual thin 
>client build (its cool and useful).
>
>If you really, really want to do it, you'll need a server with servers for 
>dhcp, tftp, and nfs, a chrootable linux install in a subdirectory on your 
>server (see man debootstrap for how on debian), a kernel with nfs-boot and 
>kernel-level ip autoconfig enabled + a NIC driver compiled in (DO NOT USE 
>for the server - its for the client machine to boot), an etherboot boot 
>disk for your client's NIC, the mknbi-linux program from the etherboot 
>tools, and a lot of time :-)
>
>I'd say ltsp is your best bet if you don't want to get your hands really, 
>really dirty in the guts of the boot process.
>
>BTW for those interested I'll be posting a _very_ preliminary version of 
>the docs (more a mini-draft-howto) at 
>http://www.postnewspapers.com.au/~craig/ in the next couple of days.
>
>--
>Craig Ringer
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>
>

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