On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 11:08:47AM -0700, Shriram Shrikumar wrote: > Hi All, > > just wondering if it was possible to set one of the tty's like tty8 to login to > another machine via ssh instead of just to the local machine. Just a quick 2sec search, but this might point you in the right direction: init uses getty (or some variant - check /etc/inittab) to spawn a terminal, and getty spawns /bin/login to produce the prompt and handle user logins. getty can be instructed to spawn a different program with the -l option. Perhaps if you put an entry like this in /etc/inittab: 8:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -l /usr/bin/ssh hostname 38400 tty8 where hostname is the remote host. According to the manpages, getty will pass the name from the login: prompt on to ssh (since /bin/login works in much the same way ssh does - for this purpose). I've not tried this myself - perhaps there is someone out there who has that may be of more help. HTH, -- Mike Alborn <malborn@odoitau.dyn.dhs.org> # pgp keyid: C36DC30D Ain't nothin' an old man can do for me but bring me a message from a young man. -- Moms Mabley
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