[HN Gopher] SSH Chat
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       SSH Chat
        
       Author : decrypt
       Score  : 31 points
       Date   : 2022-06-13 14:52 UTC (8 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (github.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
        
       | riedel wrote:
       | Why not just use write(1) on any prompt to chat with other user
       | logged into a normal shell?
        
         | dredmorbius wrote:
         | Dedicated constrained-use service.
         | 
         | The chat server permits chat, but no other shell functions (one
         | would hope).
        
         | smokey_circles wrote:
         | I can't imagine there's much benefit to it or that the goal was
         | to be better than the existing inter-session tools in Linux.
         | 
         | But I built an ssh server in go once, which was a fun way to
         | learn the deeper features and flows of the SSH protocol.
         | 
         | I think it's cool to see someone else doing something similar.
         | Like affirmation that my curiosity (and maybe some stumbling
         | too) is something worth cultivating
        
       | dhc02 wrote:
       | Pretty cool. What did you use to build it?
        
         | anoncow419 wrote:
         | ssh-chat is written in Go and uses the stock golang/crypto
         | library with some other upstream dependencies for terminal
         | interactions. ssh-chat was written by HN member shazow
         | https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=shazow
        
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