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Re:Devzat – Chat over SSH, with some nice quality-of-life fe... by lynx23 on Friday July 19, 2024 @02:05AM (#41002334)
Related: Does anyone by chance know how to configure an "anonymous" ssh account that always runs the same program? This would be great for making text mode games available to everyone without needing to support different platforms, now that windows actually ships with ssh.
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Re:Devzat – Chat over SSH, with some nice quality-of-life fe... by fragmede on Friday July 19, 2024 @02:06AM (#41002339)
customize https://github.com/gliderlabs/ssh

I use it for funky.nondeterministic.computer

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Re:Devzat – Chat over SSH, with some nice quality-of-life fe... by lynx23 on Friday July 19, 2024 @03:39AM (#41002956)
Thanks for the link! However, I will not touch the Google programming language.
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Re:Devzat – Chat over SSH, with some nice quality-of-life fe... by fragmede on Friday July 19, 2024 @06:02AM (#41004354)
your loss. fwiw, It's not run by Google any more
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Re:Devzat – Chat over SSH, with some nice quality-of-life fe... by lynx23 on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @06:27AM (#41044525)
Still tainted :-) Everything that Google touches is tainted.
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Re:Devzat – Chat over SSH, with some nice quality-of-life fe... by cdelsolar on Friday July 19, 2024 @09:21AM (#41006271)
lol
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Re:Devzat – Chat over SSH, with some nice quality-of-life fe... by quackduck on Friday July 19, 2024 @06:37AM (#41004655)
you can configure sshd to run any random executable when a user connects
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Re:Devzat – Chat over SSH, with some nice quality-of-life fe... by SushiHippie on Friday July 19, 2024 @03:53PM (#41010421)
Wouldn't it be possible to just change the shell via 'chsh' or editing /etc/passwd to point to the text mode game for a particular user
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Re:Devzat – Chat over SSH, with some nice quality-of-life fe... by lynx23 on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @06:26AM (#41044512)
THats the theory. However, AIUI, you need a machine that only does this single application. Because if you have a user without password, that can be an issue for many other services. SMTP for instance.
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