Hi, On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 10:59:31AM +1000, Peter Dolding wrote: > Subject: Have you considered cases where people cannot open ports or > not permitted to run servers yet still need control..
Just to be sure: You are aware that mosh needs no permanently running server other than an SSH daemon (which in most cases runs anyway) for the session initiation? > Mosh by xmmp or equal would be useful when both of these restrictions > apply. This removes the computer being controlled from requiring a > static IP address or open ports to everyone. Only friends of the > xmmp account that is the server could be limited to control it. There is an implementation of SSH over XMPP called "SSH Contact". See e.g. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/ssh-contact (The official site was at http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/SSH-Contact but vanished, probably due to the wiki conversion mentioned on http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/conversion/. The upstream git repo is still there, though: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/telepathy/telepathy-ssh-contact/) Nevertheless the idea to run mosh over XMPP sounds to me like getting "SSH Contact" with some of mosh's nice non-ssh-ish features. Tempting. But than again I never found a single case where SSH Contact would have been of use for me... > Yes this provides a different solution to forwarding. In fact ssh > forwarding has it hazards. Like what happens when the forwarding > dies. AutoSSH handles that case quite nicely IMHO: http://www.harding.motd.ca/autossh/ Kind regards, Axel -- /~\ Plain Text Ribbon Campaign | Axel Beckert \ / Say No to HTML in E-Mail and News | [email protected] (Mail) X See http://www.asciiribbon.org/ | [email protected] (Mail+Jabber) / \ I love long mails: http://email.is-not-s.ms/ | http://noone.org/abe/ (Web) _______________________________________________ mosh-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/mosh-devel
