Re: Automation Sans Window Server
Re: Automation Sans Window Server
- Subject: Re: Automation Sans Window Server
- From: Philip Aker <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 04:11:15 -0700
On 08-04-16, at 02:32, Mark J. Reed wrote:
Fire up Terminal, and you have a command line shell on your local
host. Type "ssh someOtherMac", supply the password, and now your
Terminal is effectively running on the remote Mac. You can do
anything that you can do in a local Terminal, except that anything
that requires the window server won't work unless you left yourself
logged in on the console of the other Mac, too.
That's basic ssh. (Note that if your short user name is different on
the two Macs, you have to type "ssh otherUsername@someOtherMac"
instead of just "ssh someOtherMac".)
You don't have to do any of the key generation stuff - that's a
security/convenience feature that let's you avoid typing the password
everytime. It is especially convenient for automation, though, which
frequently uses quick one-offs of the form "ssh hostname command",
which connects to the remote machine just long enough to run the given
command and then exits.
Thanks as well Mark,
Although this came up in the context of other Macs, I've long wanted
to ssh into my server on the assumption it might be more convenient
than ftp.
True?
Philip Aker
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