configuring SSH client for Palm Pilot
Matt Walters
The higher-ups here have asked us to look into e-mail via Palm, but we
don't want them to use the e-mail client that comes with the software
because of password security concerns. We found an SSH client that runs on
the palm os here...
http://www.isaac.cs.berkeley.edu/pilot/
but are having trouble getting the ITD login servers to recognize the
terminal information.
We have termcap information for the ssh client, but obviously can't insert
it into /etc/termcap on the login servers. So we're approaching the
problem from two ways:
1) Is there a way to make a local termcap file in a user's home directory
and make the shell look to that file for terminal info?
2) It was suggested to us that we could use stty commands to configure the
terminal settings at login. Unfortunately we're not sure how to translate
termcap information into the appropriate stty commands. Is there anyone
out there who'd be willing to give us a hand? Here's the termcap
information, if you're interested:
pi|pilot|tgtelnet:am:xn:bs:co#39:li#16:cl=\Ec:cm=\Em%+ %+ :ho=\Em :nw=\Em~:\
:so=\Eb:se=\EB:bl=^g:cr=^m:do=^j:le=^h:kP=^k:kN=^l:
Thanks in advance for any help that you can give us!
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Matt Walters
Computer & Technology Services
School of Social Work
University of Michigan
Marius Aamodt Eriksen
> Hello,
>
> The higher-ups here have asked us to look into e-mail via Palm, but we
> don't want them to use the e-mail client that comes with the software
> because of password security concerns. We found an SSH client that runs on
> the palm os here...
>
> http://www.isaac.cs.berkeley.edu/pilot/
>
> but are having trouble getting the ITD login servers to recognize the
> terminal information.
>
> We have termcap information for the ssh client, but obviously can't insert
> it into /etc/termcap on the login servers.
Not even with the cooperation of the ITD sysadmins?
> 1) Is there a way to make a local termcap file in a user's home directory
> and make the shell look to that file for terminal info?
None that I know of.
>
> 2) It was suggested to us that we could use stty commands to configure the
> terminal settings at login. Unfortunately we're not sure how to translate
> termcap information into the appropriate stty commands. Is there anyone
> out there who'd be willing to give us a hand? Here's the termcap
> information, if you're interested:
One way to do that would be to do a 'stty -a' on a terminal that's correctly
configured for the palm, then just make a stty statement based on that
(this will even give the command switches).