Re: [Xen-users] console access for domU owners

[Stephen Le <zeroion@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/16/05, Ian Pratt <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> You can use ssh's forced command facility to allow suitably
> authenticated users to connect to the console on a particular vm.

>From what I've read, it appears that SSH's forced command facility
only works with public key authentication. Given the difficulties of
getting every user to generate a SSH auth key and of managing them, I
don't think such a solution would be very practical.

It appears that my best hope is using, as a login shell, a script that
calls telnet. The script will determine the UID, lookup the
appropriate console port, and launch a telnet session (with the escape
character disabled).

Anybody see anything wrong with that?

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