Trying to get SSH working on Amiga

[Marlon_]

This one is more current, but only for AmigaOS4 https://github.com/salass00/sshterm
Might be worth trying to port to OS3.x

[Nightfox]

Originally Posted by Locutus

@NightFox

I got the exact equivalent of this Amiga port to build on GNU/Linux, and have somewhat predictably ended up in the same situation.

Played a bit with configuration, but it just errors out in the event dispatch code, this really isn't going to work against a modern sshd.

Thanks for your effort! Too bad the outcome wasn't great

[Locutus]

I took a peek at the sshterm code, it uses libssh2 with a terminal based off what seems VTE.

The GUI and SSH layer are nicely separated but i suspect the GUI uses newer OS4 Intuition specifics, so backporting as is might be a bit harder.

The libssh2 that's included in the repository has a diff size of only ~250 lines from mainline.

Libssh2's example includes a bare bones CLI ssh client, i think it might be worth it to try backporting the libssh2 code to os3/68k and port the example client against that.


....Now i need to dig up a OS3/68k cross-development environment.....adventure.

[Marlon_]

Originally Posted by Locutus

I took a peek at the sshterm code, it uses libssh2 with a terminal based off what seems VTE.

The GUI and SSH layer are nicely separated but i suspect the GUI uses newer OS4 Intuition specifics, so backporting as is might be a bit harder.

The libssh2 that's included in the repository has a diff size of only ~250 lines from mainline.

Libssh2's example includes a bare bones CLI ssh client, i think it might be worth it to try backporting the libssh2 code to os3/68k and port the example client against that.


....Now i need to dig up a OS3/68k cross-development environment.....adventure.

I tried compiling the libssh2 and libtsm for OS3, and that was super easy.

So perhaps rip out the main interface and replace it with a MUI implementation or something would be easiest?

[hooverphonique]

Originally Posted by Locutus

....Now i need to dig up a OS3/68k cross-development environment.....adventure.

Have you tried bebbo's gcc env for vs code?

[Locutus]

I don't use VS Code (i'm a Emacs user, not going to change), but https://github.com/bebbo/amiga-gcc looks sane enough.

I'll try to set it up, developing against vamos looks like the most sane thing to start with right now.

[Locutus]

Originally Posted by Marlon_

I tried compiling the libssh2 and libtsm for OS3, and that was super easy.

So perhaps rip out the main interface and replace it with a MUI implementation or something would be easiest?

Yeah, libssh2 and libstm by itself shouldn't really be too bad.


But the idea of closely coupling libraries like libssh to an actual terminal emulator just seems....'what' to me.


This should be maintained as a separate project and then if you want to deep import this into a GUI application just submodule some amigafied-libssh.

[TheMrKocour]

Originally Posted by Marlon_

I tried compiling the libssh2 and libtsm for OS3, and that was super easy.

So perhaps rip out the main interface and replace it with a MUI implementation or something would be easiest?

Hi, I was wondering if you've made any further progress with the port. It would be great if there was an SSH client on the classic Amiga. I'd be happy to contribute somewhere for development (and I think others would too).

[E-Penguin]

*bump* - would love to see a modern-ish SSH client on the Amiga

[TheMrKocour]

Dreams come true http://aminet.net/package/comm/net/amigassh Works great if you install bundled font on your linux machine

[Turran]

Trying it out, I've spent 30 minutes on my swedish keyboard with UAE, trying to make an @ sign without luck =) Can't even get the amiga keys to work for copy/paste, hehe.

Edit: Ok, GB keymap and then shift Ä.. makes perfect sense.

Edit2: Or, first, just do: set USER=<user to log in with>