Install Anyterm for remote terminal access without SSH
Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 86.6.12.162]
on March 19, 2008 05:16 PM
Ugh, no line breaks. And I get an error from your server when I press submit. Trying again.
Hi Ben,
Thanks for the publicity. Quite a few people have followed the links to anyterm.org and are playing the "bastard tetris" demo right now. The server seems to be surviving under the load, for now....
To answer some of your observations:
- The standalone anyterm daemon, combined with Apache's mod_proxy, may provide better security in some scenarios. At least, it provides "different" security from the Apache module that you used.
- Re emacs and bash keybindings : it looks as if the Linux console sends ASCII 0 when you press ctrl-space, the same as ctrl-@. Presumably emacs is relying on this. I can add that easily enough. As for ALT, it looks as if this sends ESC followed by the normal keycode; again it's probably easy to add.
- I'm unsure why you see odd behaviour with ctrl-x-s. Is it because ctrl-S is XOFF? Debugging is needed.
- Re alsamixer: did you set up Anyterm with a charset to match your locale? Setting TERM to anything other than linux is generally the wrong thing to do.
And now to answer the entirely-predictable first anonymous comment:
"you think I should PAY money for using what's in effect a keylogger that gives you (or rather, anyterm.org) my root password?"
Not if you don't want to, no. But some people find it useful. The impression that I have is that many subscribers use it for things like IRC, where the value of the password is rather less than the root password on your credit card processing system.
Anon #2 writes:
> I prefer Ajaxterm as it is easy to install and much more flexible
Ajaxterm - which is like Anyterm but written in Python - is certainly easier to install. I do hope that Anyterm can be made easier to install in the future, but it's not easy when distributions (for example) can't agree what to call their libraries. I'd also like to see Anyterm packages available in some distributions - any volunteers out there? I am surprised by the "much more flexible" comment and would be interested to hear what you mean by that. Anyterm has a number of features that Ajaxterm doesn't have, including a scrollback buffer, support for different character sets, and slightly faster performance. I have side-by-side demos at anyterm.org.
Please visit the forums at anyterm.org if you have any questions.
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Install Anyterm for remote terminal access without SSH
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 86.6.12.162] on March 19, 2008 05:16 PMHi Ben,
Thanks for the publicity. Quite a few people have followed the links to anyterm.org and are playing the "bastard tetris" demo right now. The server seems to be surviving under the load, for now....
To answer some of your observations:
- The standalone anyterm daemon, combined with Apache's mod_proxy, may provide better security in some scenarios. At least, it provides "different" security from the Apache module that you used.
- Re emacs and bash keybindings : it looks as if the Linux console sends ASCII 0 when you press ctrl-space, the same as ctrl-@. Presumably emacs is relying on this. I can add that easily enough. As for ALT, it looks as if this sends ESC followed by the normal keycode; again it's probably easy to add.
- I'm unsure why you see odd behaviour with ctrl-x-s. Is it because ctrl-S is XOFF? Debugging is needed.
- Re alsamixer: did you set up Anyterm with a charset to match your locale? Setting TERM to anything other than linux is generally the wrong thing to do.
And now to answer the entirely-predictable first anonymous comment:
"you think I should PAY money for using what's in effect a keylogger that gives you (or rather, anyterm.org) my root password?"
Not if you don't want to, no. But some people find it useful. The impression that I have is that many subscribers use it for things like IRC, where the value of the password is rather less than the root password on your credit card processing system.
Anon #2 writes:
> I prefer Ajaxterm as it is easy to install and much more flexible
Ajaxterm - which is like Anyterm but written in Python - is certainly easier to install. I do hope that Anyterm can be made easier to install in the future, but it's not easy when distributions (for example) can't agree what to call their libraries. I'd also like to see Anyterm packages available in some distributions - any volunteers out there? I am surprised by the "much more flexible" comment and would be interested to hear what you mean by that. Anyterm has a number of features that Ajaxterm doesn't have, including a scrollback buffer, support for different character sets, and slightly faster performance. I have side-by-side demos at anyterm.org.
Please visit the forums at anyterm.org if you have any questions.
--Phil
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