Putty SSH on the Nokia E61
I use a lot of SSH now and again to keep an eye on what our servers are doing. Instead of hunting around for a good SSH client, I decided to ask the Oracle, Rafe, of All About Symbian what he recommended.
In miliseconds I got a reply sending me to the s2putty sourceforge page to get the Symbian Series 60 version.
I downloaded it and……. well, it’s fantastic.
The only issue I have is that the passwords for our servers are absolutely horrific. Shocking. You need to cut and paste’em because they’re such an arse to type.
Yes, I could fiddle around with public and private keys, but that, also, is a bit of an arse to configure unless you’re a ultra geek like the chaps, for example, at Blackfin. I bet Dan and Jay already have SSH on their E61s.
So alas my screenshot here is blank. Just imagine lots of unix code on it. I tried logging in a few times to one of the servers to take some screenshots but I kept getting the password wrong 
I know, however, that if I need to, if I absolutely positively need to get access to a server, I can manually type in the password and I’m connected. It’s good and fast too.
Wicked.
SSH on the e61 is great - I could really do with an escape key though, vi’s just no fun without it!
Still waiting for Dan to upgrade himself so we can run an sshd on his implant
Posted by Jay on January 29th, 2007 at 1:27 pm.Jay: Options -> Send -> Special Char -> Escape
It’s a bit much just to send an escape but it gets the job done.
As for the implant, I was actually thinking about upgrading to a chip with a higher storage capacity so I could store my SSH keys in there
Posted by Dan Lane on January 29th, 2007 at 6:12 pm.I tell people about your implant and they never believe me Dan
Posted by ewan on January 29th, 2007 at 6:14 pm.Ewan: there are videos at http://invalid.name/implant/ (or http://www.x11.net/implant / if they don’t believe the URL)
Posted by Dan Lane on January 29th, 2007 at 6:52 pm.