[vox-tech] Providing access to SSH on Kiosk?

Bill Kendrick vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Mon, 12 Jan 2004 16:42:01 -0800


On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 03:06:50PM -0800, Ken Herron wrote:
> Your best bet might be to avoid sh altogether and use perl, c, or 
> something like that:
> 
> 	#!/usr/bin/perl -w
> 	print "Host: ";
> 	my $host = <STDIN>; chomp $host;
> 	print "Username: ";
> 	my $user = <STDIN>; chomp $user;
> 	exec('/usr/bin/ssh', '-l', $user, $host);
> 	exit 1;

Ken, you're awesome.  Unless anyone else has any reason they think this
WON'T work well, I'm going to use it. :^)

-bill!