I recently had reason to get my OS/2 system at work up and running
with SSH...I don't trust telent, and we connect to lots of Unix boxes.
The last thing I want is some cracker to sit with a sniffer and
harvest my username and password. So, I did some research.
This wasn't easy, since OS/2 is, for all intents and purposes,
a dead platform.
But, MindBright was kind enough to come up with a Java SSH client,
which functions beautifully under OS/2.
Here's how you make it go.
- Head over to MindTerm's Page and download the zip file with both mindtermlite and mindterm full.
- Make sure you have at least Java 1.1 installed on your OS/2 box
- Expand the mindterm directories to somewhere on a local drive
- Add the mindterm directory to the classpath statement in your config.sys file
- Start your app from the command line with 'java mindbright.application.MindTerm'
- Enjoy your secure connection.
Now, to actually get tunneling going, I've had to do some experimenting.
It hasn't been entirely succesful. I still have not yet managed to get it to save my host settings, either. But here's what I've divined so far.
- When making your connection, click on the "more options" button.
- fill in your IP address
- fill in your display (IP:0)
- click checkbox for X11 forwarding
- click checkbox for allow remote connects
That should be what you need to get the xterm from the remote machine automagically up on your local display :)
NOTE: You MUST have the OS/2 Xserver or xfree86 up and running on your machine, or you'll get an error message, and you won't get the xterm displayed.
Good Luck
Thanks to the guys at OS/2 Voice for doing all the thinking for me, and putting up a longer version of these instructions at This Page.
Thanks to Mike Schwarz for help in actually getting it to run, and for help in configuring my X tunneling through regular ssh on my linux box at home.