freebsd stable - Sep 2005 - serial terminal direct connection to remote host at login

Hi,

i have some 4.10 systems with local connected serial terminals. now the
problem is, that the terminal should connect to a remote host when they
are switched on and prompt for the login at the romote host.

the way of loging in at the local host and then do a telnet to
remote-host is not a real good solution, because all users have to enter
their password twice and furthermore all users have to be created on the
local system with the terminals too.

is there any way to hardwire the terminal to a remote host? i already
searched all of the ttys aso man pages, but had no luck findig a
solution.


many thanks,

best regards,

karl

On Fri, 09 Sep 2005 16:56:19 +0200
"Karl M. Joch" <k.joch@kmjeuro.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> i have some 4.10 systems with local connected serial terminals. now
> the problem is, that the terminal should connect to a remote host when
> they are switched on and prompt for the login at the romote host.
perhaps you can use conserver for that, even if it is designed to do the
opposite (ie. manage remote attacjed serial consoles)?
It's in ports, see
ports/comms/conserver
ports/comms/conserver-com

If not, you will have to look for a way to set up someting like the
following:
- automatic login on local machine (as an unprivileged user)
- automatic connection to remote host (perhaps via .profile or somesuch

Hmm, there is an 'autologin' entry in my /etc/gettytab, and gettytab(5)
explains about the 'al' capability. This allows you to to autologin as a
specified user, at least.

There is also the 'lo' capability, which controls the program to execute
once a name is obtained, usually '/usr/bin/login'. I don't know it
it is
possible to change this into, say ssh and have the teminal automatically
connect to another machine.

HTH
 -- 
Yours, 
Torfinn Ingolfsen,
Norway

Am 09. September 2005 um 16:56:19 +0200 schrieb Karl M. Joch:
> is there any way to hardwire the terminal to a remote host? i already
> searched all of the ttys aso man pages, but had no luck findig a
> solution.
Telnet is crap anyway. Use 'ssh' instead. If you provide ssh keys, you
can login w/o further password asking and your users have to give the
password only once at the serial login.

Liebe Gr??e, Nora.

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