Any chance of getting support for SSH? I would like to use MUSHClient as a telnet program, to telnet securely into a shell account and from there, do things in my account, and perhaps telnet from there to other MUSHes. I don't know how difficult this would be or anything... just a suggestion.
Support for SSH
Posted by Javin on Thu 26 Apr 2001 03:02 AM — 7 posts, 30,561 views.
I think this would be a low-priority change. There are already SSH clients around (although not MUD clients), and I think that supporting other requests (like Mud Extension Protocol) would come higher up the list than that.
A bit off-topic, but the SSH client I use (very nice) is SecureCRT by VanDyke Technologies -- http://www.vandyke.com -- no complaints. When I'm on a Mac, I tend to use F-Secure, as it's the only one that does SSH1 (my main shell account doesn't have SSH2 yet) and ANSI color, which is pretty much required for tinyfugue -- sorry, Nick, I'm not on my winbox 100% of the time. :) But when I am -- I use Mushclient!
i would very much like to see the support or implementation of the ssh protocol as well. since there are more and more snoopers roaming the internet who can easily get your password and do harm, mud administrator changed the login in such a way, that you have connect to their unix machine, using a unix account, and then login in to the mud 'locally'.
redirection is another use: when a link to a mud is faster via another server/router, people login there and then connect further to the mud server.
in both cases we would all like to use the mushclient as the core client :)
just a guest
redirection is another use: when a link to a mud is faster via another server/router, people login there and then connect further to the mud server.
in both cases we would all like to use the mushclient as the core client :)
just a guest
This is on the suggestions list as #426 - however I have added your comments to it. :)
Just so that you know, there are MU* servers already implementing SSH. FuzzballMUCK already has SSH, and last I heard ProtoMUCK may end up adding it as well. I know that FurryMUCK is the first MUCK server that has an SSH port to connect to.
I'm unsure if MUSHs/MUXs/MOOs/MUDs/etc have it added yet, mind you.
There are also two other MU* clients that have recently added SSH support (BeipMU, and Trebuchet).
Just thought that I'd let you know, as SSH has moved beyond the telnet world and into the MU* world.
I'm unsure if MUSHs/MUXs/MOOs/MUDs/etc have it added yet, mind you.
There are also two other MU* clients that have recently added SSH support (BeipMU, and Trebuchet).
Just thought that I'd let you know, as SSH has moved beyond the telnet world and into the MU* world.
> that you have connect to their unix machine, using a unix
> account, and then login in to the mud 'locally'.
If you have a UNIX account on the machine and they have SSH installed, you can already securely connect to the MUSH via MUSHclient, without requiring SSH support.
What you do is in your SSH client software (there's a couple decent free clients such as the one from SSH.com, PuTTY, etc.), setup port forwarding from localhost port 4201 to port 4201 on the remote host (assuming your MUSH's port is 4201). Then, set MUSHclient to connect to TCP/IP address 127.0.0.1 (that's your own computer) and port number 4201. Open the SSH connection, then you can connect using MUSHclient and it'll go through the encrypted SSH tunnel.
Of course, this will only work if you have an account on the UNIX machine to SSH into, so it's not a perfect solution.
> account, and then login in to the mud 'locally'.
If you have a UNIX account on the machine and they have SSH installed, you can already securely connect to the MUSH via MUSHclient, without requiring SSH support.
What you do is in your SSH client software (there's a couple decent free clients such as the one from SSH.com, PuTTY, etc.), setup port forwarding from localhost port 4201 to port 4201 on the remote host (assuming your MUSH's port is 4201). Then, set MUSHclient to connect to TCP/IP address 127.0.0.1 (that's your own computer) and port number 4201. Open the SSH connection, then you can connect using MUSHclient and it'll go through the encrypted SSH tunnel.
Of course, this will only work if you have an account on the UNIX machine to SSH into, so it's not a perfect solution.