2010-08-05
tlssh - a replacement for SSH
I've started writing a replacement for SSH.
Why? Because SSH has some drawbacks that sometimes annoy me. I also wanted an authentication scheme that's more similar to SSL/TLS than what SSH does.
With tlssh you don't specify username or password, you simply connect to the server using a client-side certificate to log in as the user specified in the certificate. No interaction until you reach the shell prompt on the server.
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