From owner-freebsd-mobile Sat Jul 8 14:44:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from kestrel.prod.itd.earthlink.net (kestrel.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.121.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFD8837BFF2; Sat, 8 Jul 2000 14:44:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@earthlink.net) Received: from dialin-client.earthlink.net (pool0319.cvx20-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net [209.179.251.64]) by kestrel.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3-EL_1_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA06599; Sat, 8 Jul 2000 14:44:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by dialin-client.earthlink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA00383; Sat, 8 Jul 2000 14:43:01 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2000 14:43:00 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Harry Putnam Cc: freebsd-freebsd@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ssh from FreeBSD laptop to view mail Message-ID: <20000708144300.D183@dialin-client.earthlink.net> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from reader@newsguy.com on Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 01:43:13PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [This is not really a -mobile question. Redirecting to -questions.] On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 01:43:13PM -0700, Harry Putnam wrote: > Running a Toshiba 4005CDS with FreeBSD 4.0 snap 06/24 > > I have ssh-1.2.27 installed and use it extensively. In fact I've set > my machines (personal at home machines) to only allow connections via > ssh. OpenSSH is part of the base system of FreeBSD 4.0. No need to install the ssh-1.2.27 port. > Now I want to have a laptop running FreeBSD 4.0 networked to desktop > running Redhat linux, be able to view/manipulate mail on the parent machine > but don't want to setup pop, imap or special sendmail stuff. [snip] > What would be nice is to just say `mutt' and a ssh connection is > started and mail in PARENT:/var/spool/mail/$NAME is viewed, deleted > saved etc. > > I have ssh-agent setup and do understand how to avoid password > problems during connections. Why don't you just connect to the other machine and run mutt? % ssh redhat Red Hat Linux release 6.2 (Hedwig) Kernel 2.2.5-15 on an i586 % mutt Or do that in one step, % ssh redhat mutt -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message