Question on minterm functionality.

[Paul, Pressley Abraham]

Hello,

I came across the mindterm product a couple of days ago. I have certain
questions on the functionality of this product. I tried to go thru the
code and get the answers, but couldn't find them. I'd really appreciate
if anyone could let me know.

I have put the mindterm.jar on a Unix box and created a jsp page to call
mindterm.java as an applet so that anyone could access mindterm by using
the URL for the jsp.

My questions are:
1. I am accessing the jsp page from a local windows client machine - My
requirement is that I need to be able to login to the unixbox by using a
public key on the unixbox(by ssh to itself) and that public key
shouldn't be saved on the windows machine client whatsoever when I use
mindterm. I am able to login perfectly to the unix box using mindterm,
but, is there a way to ensure that the public key is not downloaded on
the windows client machine and the connection happens from there to the
unix box? Where is the code for that? In fact, I want to ensure that
mindterm is looking for the key on the unixbox rather than on the
windows client machine)
2. In my case(where the mindterm.jar is on my unix box and the frontend
applet is running on a windows client machine) , will mindterm be doing
an ssh from the client computer to the unix box, or is it making the
unix box do an ssh to itself and just displaying the results using the
applet?

A little background:  there is an application on my unixbox which can be
accessed only by a certain functional account which requires a public
key. What I am trying to do is that I need a web application which lets
any user directly access the application thru a web page without needing
to have a public key on their respective client machines. My assumption
is that if I have a java code that is running on a webserver on the unix
box running as the functional account, anyone would be able to access
the application as the functional account by accessing the URL for the
java/jsp page on the webserver on the unixbox. Will mindterm help me to
accomplish this somehow?

Any help would be appreciated. Please let me know if you have any
Questions.

Thanks in Advance,
Presley.