I was able to finish what I needed to do on that Tiger
system by doing what turned out to be the smartest thing I did
on the whole project. We already had sharing turned on to set up
the WiFi router so I went to system preferences and turned on
remote login capability. This lets you ssh in to the Mac from
another system. For the command-line shell, you do not need
remote desktop enabled but you must then create what is called
a ssh key in the user account to which you want access.
Tiger voiceover works just fine to let you do system
preferences so I checked remote login and ftp. One bit of
caution. The checkbox for the thing you need appears to be to
the left. In other words, find remote login and then use VO-left
arrow to hit the box.
You're not quite ready yet as sshd on the Mac will not
let you even log in with a password if there is no ssh key.
Call up terminal in voiceover one last painful time and
do the following:
At the command prompt, type
ssh-keygen -tdsa
and hit Enter. If VO is being cooperative, hit VO-a to dump the
scroll-back buffer. I had intermittent luck with this in
terminal but it should tell you where it is putting the key and
even create the .ssh directory in your home folder. To do what I
am describing, just keep hitting Enter and accept all the
defaults. You won't hear much unless you try VO-a and VO and
terminal are not playing the silent game which they seem to do
at times.
If you do get a scrollback dump, VO-k does reset it to
cut down on some of the annoyance.
After you have run ssh-keygen -tdsa and hit Enter about
4 or 5 times, it is done and you have the shell prompt back.
After VO and terminal have been running for a few commands, the
VO-a does start working and you can hear what you did.
At this time, you can do Command-q and quit terminal and
go to your Linux system and try to ssh in. You should get the
password prompt. Enter the account password and you are remotely on the
Mac with a much more responsive terminal.
If you need to become root, sudo is there and you use
your user account password to su to root.
Be careful. These are adult toys and you can do real
harm if you don't know what you are doing.
Fortunately, voiceover got much better with leopard and
above so you won't be quite so ready to spit nails and
straighten out horse shoes with your bear hands on a leopard,
snowleopard or lion system. Terminal actually works except for
the fact that the speech resets on new input so you can more
easily use the tools provided.
Those of you who have used or are still using tiger with VO,
deserve the national medal of patience should one ever be struck.
Martin
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