[TriLUG] Advice: ssh/rxvt/pine

[Kevin - The Alchemist - Sonney]

On Sun, 2002-04-21 at 23:39, Andrew Perrin (CLists) wrote:
> The problem is this: I'm lazy. I'd like to have a menu option, when logged
> in as aperrin, to open a window for clists' mail. I'm perfectly happy to
> type the password, but would prefer not to have to open an xterm, ssh or
> su, and then type pine manually.

su -c is your friend, if you happen to be on the same machine as the
account:
rxvt -e su - clists -c pine

Now, for ssh, things get trickier. Pine wants to control I/O in ways ssh
doesn;t allow for when apssed on the ssh command line. In my experience,
ssh & pine have never played nice with this :

> rxvt -name clists -title clists -bg lightblue -fg black -e ssh \
>    clists at perrin.socsci.unc.edu pine

So if I were you, I'd script the command - instead of pine, use, say
pine-launcher.sh or something.

> Can anyone suggest a one-line (e.g., can be put into fvwm2's
> main-menu-pre-hook file) command that will successfully launch another
> user's pine? If a password authentication is necessary, it should be able
> to ask for it.

Hmm. most of the time I just used ssh for it. Although I've switched to 
evolution pretty much full time, which does really nice multi-account
things.

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