I use a lot of SSH now and again to keep an eye on what our servers are doing. Instead of hunting around for a good SSH client, I decided to ask the Oracle, Rafe, of All About Symbian what he recommended.
In miliseconds I got a reply sending me to the s2putty sourceforge page to get the Symbian Series 60 version.
I downloaded it and……. well, it’s fantastic.
The only issue I have is that the passwords for our servers are absolutely horrific. Shocking. You need to cut and paste’em because they’re such an arse to type.
Yes, I could fiddle around with public and private keys, but that, also, is a bit of an arse to configure unless you’re a ultra geek like the chaps, for example, at Blackfin. I bet Dan and Jay already have SSH on their E61s.
So alas my screenshot here is blank. Just imagine lots of unix code on it. I tried logging in a few times to one of the servers to take some screenshots but I kept getting the password wrong 😉
I know, however, that if I need to, if I absolutely positively need to get access to a server, I can manually type in the password and I’m connected. It’s good and fast too.
Wicked.
SSH on the e61 is great – I could really do with an escape key though, vi’s just no fun without it!
Still waiting for Dan to upgrade himself so we can run an sshd on his implant 😉
Jay: Options -> Send -> Special Char -> Escape
It’s a bit much just to send an escape but it gets the job done.
As for the implant, I was actually thinking about upgrading to a chip with a higher storage capacity so I could store my SSH keys in there 🙂
I tell people about your implant and they never believe me Dan
Ewan: there are videos at http://invalid.name/implant/ (or http://www.x11.net/implant / if they don’t believe the URL)