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Devzat – Chat over SSH, with some nice quality-of-life features

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Re: Devzat – Chat over SSH, with some nice quality-of-life features

#81

I have a Raspberry Pi running a read-only server where some friends and I have a "poor man's IRC" chat, in that we all log in from Termux and post messages to one another using `wall`. It's absolutely ridiculous and I love it.

Yea, came here to say, what about wall! :)

Re: Devzat – Chat over SSH, with some nice quality-of-life features

#83

I'd be curious whether there's any security concerns on this one. Could an attacker craft a message that gets access to execute commands into a client terminal?

You may not want the chat server owner to know which public ssh key you are using for privacy reasons.

Workaround: Specify another ssh keypair

Re: Devzat – Chat over SSH, with some nice quality-of-life features

#84
post #44

I'd be curious whether there's any security concerns on this one. Could an attacker craft a message that gets access to execute commands into a client terminal?

I'm also interested. Setting up a passwordless SSH account for some public service sounds like a good way to give your machine away to North Korean hackers, because you forgot to set someting in /etc/sshd to "no". Is there a usable description somewhere on how to do this safely?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41002245

Re: Devzat – Chat over SSH, with some nice quality-of-life features

#85
post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

customize https://github.com/gliderlabs/ssh I use it for funky.nondeterministic.computer

Thanks for the link! However, I will not touch the Google programming language.

your loss. fwiw, It's not run by Google any more

Re: Devzat – Chat over SSH, with some nice quality-of-life features

#88
post #69

Related: Does anyone by chance know how to configure an "anonymous" ssh account that always runs the same program? This would be great for making text mode games available to everyone without needing to support different platforms, now that windows actually ships with ssh.

you can configure sshd to run any random executable when a user connects

Re: Devzat – Chat over SSH, with some nice quality-of-life features

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post #81

I have a Raspberry Pi running a read-only server where some friends and I have a "poor man's IRC" chat, in that we all log in from Termux and post messages to one another using `wall`. It's absolutely ridiculous and I love it.

Yea, came here to say, what about wall! :)

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