[ILUG] Question about ssh

[Jason Corcoran]

On Thursday 02 August 2007 10:36:55 Andrew Court wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Or you could borrow a phone abit like mine (XDA pro mini s), install an ssh
> client, and away you go.
>
> Also there was an article in 2600 about controlling a unix machine from
> your cell phone. I will ahve a look and see if I can find the code, but
> basically, using your phone you send an email to an email address, and on
> the server have a cron job set up to fetch the mail from that account,
> every 10 mins or so, and have a script which "heads" your mailbox, looks
> for the line containing "subject", and then executes the word next to it.
> Using only a mobile you can tell your system to do stuff.
>
> Its a pretty insecure hack, but could get you out of a bind.


You could go with "MindTerm -- Java-based SSH for your Web Browser"

Look at http://www.astro.psu.edu/MindTerm/ssh.html have used it in the past to 
access a machine at home, when I did not want to install anything on a cafe 
machine or they have blocked port 22.

Jason.

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