Ryan Castellucci (they/them) 1d ago

Ever wanted to use SSH to connect to an embedded Linux system over the serial port instead of suffering through some janky login program that supports very limited terminal features?

Well, I did, and the tooling didn't exist, so I made it.

It also supports ppp automatically.

cc @AMS @chaos

https://github.com/ryancdotorg/ugetty

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Show threadIrenes (many)23h ago
@ryanc @AMS @chaos huhhhhhhh. neat. if we did things that way we could use scp instead of our current workflow, which uses xmodem.
Show threadIrenes (many)
@ryanc @AMS @chaos (we don't trust our own LAN, so we have a workflow for bringing up new machines using the serial port)
Apr 8 at 11:03pmWeb
Show threadแอท-ทริด22h ago
@ireneista @ryanc "zero trust begins at home", interesting! i aspire to that ideal, sometimes.
Show threadIrenes (many)19h ago
@astrid @ryanc we figure if we don't learn how to do it ourselves, we can't teach anyone else to do it
Show thread0xC0DEC0DE07EA10h ago
@ireneista @ryanc @AMS @chaos huh, could one write a UEFI boot loader that uses serial comms to get the kernel/initrd, etc.
Show threadIrenes (many)10h ago
@c0dec0dec0de @ryanc @AMS @chaos in principle, sure
Show thread0xC0DEC0DE07EA28m ago
@ireneista
That is an interesting trust boundary. I’m curious what makes you draw the line that close
@ryanc @AMS @chaos