A toy remote login server

5 · Julia Evans · July 28, 2022, 4:01 p.m.
Hello! The other day we talked about what happened when you press a key in your terminal. As a followup, I thought it might be fun to implement a program that’s like a tiny ssh server, but without the security. You can find it on github here, and I’ll explain how it works in this blog post. the goal: “ssh” to a remote computer Our goal is to be able to login to a remote computer and run commands, like you do with SSH or telnet. The biggest difference between this program and SSH is that there’s ...