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I was waiting for the article to mention the fact that you can SSH from any capable smart phone. Then he/others are saying using SMS to send commands from his
by bryogenic 15y ago
I was waiting for the article to mention the fact that you can SSH from any capable smart phone. Then he/others are saying using SMS to send commands from his phone is a good idea. [facepalm]
Get a mobile ssh client, set it and your sshd up with RSA keys, setup port forwarding on your home router on a non-standard port, disable Root login and move along.
- kahawe 15y agoThe SMS part was only added later... the proposed "solution" was: SSH buddy! I don't know why this was linked here and got all those upvotes. I don't see anything special about it, really.
- kelnos 15y agoYou may have a cell signal but no (or prohibitively expensive, in the case of traveling abroad) data access. Then again, if one of my servers was being hacked, I think I'd be ok spending $50 in data roaming to shut it down. Although, there's the case of a really slow data. On T-Mobile I'll occasionally get an EDGE signal too useless to even establish an ssh session, let alone be interactive enough to use ssh. A text message can often be much more reliable and easy to use. Not sure about the security implications related to SMS remote control, though.