Mastodawn

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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Irenes (many)1d ago

@ryanc @AMS @chaos huhhhhhhh. neat. if we did things that way we could use scp instead of our current workflow, which uses xmodem.

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Irenes (many)1d ago

@ryanc @AMS @chaos (we don't trust our own LAN, so we have a workflow for bringing up new machines using the serial port)

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0xC0DEC0DE07EA 21h ago

@ireneista
That is an interesting trust boundary. I’m curious what makes you draw the line that close
@ryanc @AMS @chaos

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Irenes (many)21h ago

@c0dec0dec0de @ryanc @AMS @chaos well, because it's been clear to us for a long time that there's a lot of stuff on any home network that absolutely does not deserve trust. we feel like recent botnet-router stuff has validated this approach, but at the time we started doing this that was a purely theoretical concern... we just felt it was clearly an important one.

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Irenes (many)

@c0dec0dec0de @ryanc @AMS @chaos plus, by doing things that way we learn where the sticking points are and how to get through them, which will help anyone else who comes later