ssh chat.shazow.net
Hi HN, I wrote a custom SSH server in Go, give it a try. It uses your terminal user and SSH keys to authenticate implicitly. Instead of getting a shell, you get an IRC-style chatroom with everyone else. $ ssh chat.shazow.net If you're getting "Permission denied (publickey)", please use ssh-keygen to create a keypair. Instructions here: https://help.github.com/articles/generating-ssh-keys/ SSH is a really cool protocol; it's a lot like HTTP2. This is a demo of one thing you can do with it, but I plan to factor out the code into libraries that will let you build all…
ssh chat.shazow.net launched on December 12, 2014 with 171 votes, #95 of 1,837 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.
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ssh chat.shazow.net is a custom SSH server written in Go that turns SSH connections into an IRC-style chatroom. Instead of providing a shell, it authenticates users implicitly using their terminal username and existing SSH keys, then connects them to a shared chat space with other connected users. The service demonstrates alternative uses of the SSH protocol beyond traditional shell access and is intended as a proof of concept for building interactive experiences accessible through any SSH client.
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Hi HN, I wrote a custom SSH server in Go, give it a try. It uses your terminal user and SSH keys to authenticate implicitly. Instead of getting a shell, you get an IRC-style chatroom with everyone else. $ ssh chat.shazow.net If you're getting "Permission denied (publickey)", please use ssh-keygen to create a keypair.…
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Run `ssh devzat.hackclub.com` to try it out! The repo is here: https://github.com/quackduck/devzat (golang). It has markdown and emoji support, DMs, channels, and it can show images too. You can send code, and it gets syntax highlighted (you can change the theme). You can ping people like so: @user and it sends them a \a, which should play an audible sound if the terminal allows it. There's inbuilt games and rainbow names and a lot of other small things I don't remember right now. You might find the auth system interesting: it's based on a hash of ssh pubkey (bans use…
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