Self-Sign HowTo?

Miroslav Luptak mluptak@email.com
Mon, 02 Jun 2003 17:58:29 -0500


Hello, Dave,

thanks to the pointer. SSHTerm looks very promising. When it supports HTTP and SOCKS proxy, SCP and remote command execution, then I will gladly replace Mindterm.

And a scripting language would be nice, too. And telnet and "classical" remote shell support would be nice, too, so that I could use the same client for every host I need to connect to.

Best regards and let's hope that SSHTerm's authors will continue good work.

Miro

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Becks" <davebecks143@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2003 12:34:01 +0000 
To: mindterm-users@mindterm.appgate.com
Subject: RE: Self-Sign HowTo?

> If users are having problems with the signing of the JAR file or maybe even 
> the licensing model used, then may I suggest using a similar client named 
> SSHTerm which is available at http://www.sshtools.com .  It uses the same 
> licensing model as the original Mindbright application, ie Gnu General 
> Public License (GPL) so is free to use in any environment, commercial or 
> otherwise.
> 
> The client is also available in a signed applet distribution (also GPL) 
> which can be launched from the same site.
> 
> Dave Becks
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: 	mindterm-users-admin@mindterm.appgate.com 
> [mailto:mindterm-users-admin@mindterm.appgate.com]  On Behalf Of Dave 
> Johnson
> Sent:	02 June 2003 13:06
> To:	mindterm-users@mindterm.appgate.com
> Subject:	Re: Self-Sign HowTo?
> 
> Here is how I did it on a Redhat linux 8.0 box with Java SDK 1.4
> installed (I got the RPM from java.sun.com).
> 
> 1. Get the jar.
> 
> wget http://www.appgate.com/mindterm/MindTerm-2.3.1/mindterm_2.3.1-bin.zip
> unzip mindterm_2.3.1-bin.zip
> mv mindterm.jar mindtermfull.jar
> 
> 2. Create a self-signed (dummy) certificate.
> 
> keytool -genkey -keystore mykeystore -alias myalias
> 
> keytool -selfcert -keystore mykeystore -alias myalias
> 
> 3. Sign your jar with your dummy certificate.
> 
> jarsigner -keystore mykeystore mindtermfull.jar myalias
> 
> 4. Use the HTML code as previously posted (e.g. edit index.html)
> 
> <html>
> <head>
> <title>SSH Java Applet</title>
> <meta content="text/html" http-equiv=Content-Type>
> </head>
> <body>
> <br>
> <center>
> <h1>Loading SSH Applet</h1>
> </center>
> 
> <applet>
> <param name="height"    value="1">
> <param name="width"     value="1">
> <param name="code"      value="com.mindbright.application.MindTerm.class">
> <param name="codeBase"  value="./">
> <param name="archive"   value="mindtermfull.jar">
> <param name="port"      value="22">
> <param name="alive"     value="10">
> <param name="te"        value="xterm-color">
> <param name="gm"        value="80x32">
> <param name="sepframe"  value="true">
> <param name="quiet"     value="true">
> <param name="cmdsh"     value="false">
> <param name="autoprops" value="none">
> <param name="verbose"   value="false">
> <param name="idhost"    value="false">
> <param name="debug"     value="false">
> </applet>
> </body>
> </html>
> 
> 5. Put the jar in the same directory as your html file.
> 
> cp mindtermfull.jar /var/www/html/
> chmod a+r /var/www/html/mindtermfull.jar /var/www/html/index.html
> 
> 6. Point your browser to your website, and enjoy!
> 
> Note: your users will get security warnings because you've used a
> self-signed certificate.  Just tell them to dismiss the warnings.
> 
> This worked for me in both IE 6.0 and Moz 1.4b.  I *was* able to connect
> to arbitrary remote hosts.  I did not attempt file transfer or port
> forwarding.
> 
> 7. After enjoying, consider paying for a license.  Mindbright has a
> really awesome product, and I'd hate to see them stop development on it.
> 
> 
> DJ
> 
> 
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