There are several ways to contact 9srv.net. It will respond to telnet,
ssh, or drawterm. For some sort of security (as much as possible over
telnet), 9srv will require a challenge/response login. A program called
"netkey" will do the challenge/response for you; see below for
availability. Alternately, you can ssh in, which will both offer a more
secure connection and (should you like) allow you to log in with a
password. To get password login, you need to give some config options
to your local ssh, generally in ~/.ssh/config. Tal's example (with a
name modification) works well:
Host 9srv.net
ForwardX11 no
RSAAuthentication yes
PasswordAuthentication yes
FallBackToRsh no
UseRsh no
#ChallengeResponseAuthentication yes # you want a challenge/response login
ChallengeResponseAuthentication no # you want to use a password
Compression no
Protocol 1
Finally, you can access it and get a nice graphical interface using
drawterm (again, availability below). This will roughly simulate a Plan
9 terminal. If you know how to use that sort of thing, feel free (and
encouraged). Otherwise, please use one of the other (likely more
familiar) methods described above.
Various versions of netkey are available at http://9srv.net. Several
other versions exist (in binary or source forms) in various places -
try google or grab http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~rsc/netkey.c and
compile it (on pretty much any Unix system). Linux and Windows binaries
of drawterm are also available at http//9srv.net - source for lots of
other platforms is in the Plan 9 distribution. Mail if you'd like a
particular version.
Or if you have any other questions or problems, write to 'a'.
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