On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 11:40:06PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > An other solution to your problem could be to use a java-applet ssh client. > Then you could use ssh to login from any java enabled browser in the world, > and you dont have to worry about one time passwords at all. > > Look at: > http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~fapp2/software/java-ssh/ > http://www.mud.de/se/jta/ >
Good idea. I was going to suggest carrying around a disk with Mac and Windoze ssh clients, or putting them on your machine so you can get them with http. A good windoze client is putty, since it is only a single .exe: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ (actually, I'm a big fan of putty now. It feels a lot like xterm, and is very fast at drawing text in its window (relative to other telnet/ssh programs, including teraterm). I use putty unless I'm at a computer lab where teraterm ssh is installed but putty isn't (which is the case in some of the CS labs at school.)) A Mac client which can scp and ssh is NiftyTelnet SSH: http://www.lysator.liu.se/~jonasw/freeware/niftyssh/ If you put the java applet on your home box, you might want to consider serving it over secure http, so it doesn't get hacked in transit. OTOH, keystroke loggers will be a far greater concern in kiosks and such, as somebody else mentioned. (I don't know what to do about that, since installing a new OS or something like that on every box you want to use might make you a bit unpopular!) Using one-time passwords in combination with ssh would make a crackers job a lot harder, though. -- #define X(x,y) x##y DUPS Secretary ; http://is2.dal.ca/~dups/ Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , dal.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE
