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Author SHA1 Message Date
Avery Pennarun
c3399595d2 README/sshuttle.1: add a note about the MacOS kernel bug.
And its side effects.

Reported by David Held / Antonio d'Souza.
2011-02-26 17:23:11 -08:00
Avery Pennarun
bcf1892305 Make password prompting more clear.
Based on suggestions by Jason Grossman and Ed Maste on the mailing list.

We now add a [local su] prefix to the 'su' password prompt (by cheating and
printing it before calling su), and we replace the 'sudo' password prompt
with '[local sudo] Password: ' (by using the little-known and
hopefully-portable -p option).

We no longer call sudo or su if the uid is already 0; otherwise the prefix
on the 'su' prompt would look weird, since su wouldn't ask for a password in
that case.

We don't add a prefix to the ssh password prompt, because it's too hard to
tell if there will *be* an ssh password prompt.  But people will probably
assume that the password request is for the server anyway; few people are
likely to think that 'sshuttle -r myhost.com' is going to prompt for the
*local* password.

Of course none of this is a problem on a modern OS, like Debian, that would
say something like "Password for apenwarr@myhost.com:" instead of just
"Password:".  MacOS doesn't do that, however, so I assume many other OSes
also don't.  Let's try to help them out.
2010-11-08 23:35:16 -08:00
Avery Pennarun
6e336c09bf README: remove the note about MacOS not working. It works now! 2010-10-01 00:43:01 -07:00
Avery Pennarun
6bdb9517fd README: fix some out-of-date system requirements stuff.
Reported by Jason Axelson.
2010-07-25 00:16:09 -04:00
Avery Pennarun
d435ed837d Created a googlegroups.com mailing list for sshuttle. 2010-05-11 15:30:53 -04:00
Avery Pennarun
8fe3592be3 Don't require the remote server to have sshuttle installed.
Instead, grab our source code, send it over the link, and have python eval
it and then start the server.py main() function.

Strangely, there's now *less* horrible stuff in ssh.py, because we no longer
have to munge around with the PATH environment variable.  And this
significantly reduces the setup required to get sshuttle going.

Based on a suggestion from Wayne Scott.
2010-05-04 23:42:36 -04:00
Avery Pennarun
0cdd72c830 README: clarify that the server doesn't need Linux or iptables. 2010-05-03 16:35:35 -04:00
Avery Pennarun
403a088e07 README: add information about which iptables modules are needed.
As requested by a user.
2010-05-03 13:08:26 -04:00
Avery Pennarun
4a93d3362d README: fix some formatting for easier text-mode readability.
It looked okay in markdown, but some of the text lines were a bit too long.
2010-05-03 13:07:30 -04:00
Avery Pennarun
33a73056ee README: update to use real markdown-style headings.
Oops, got those mixed up with some random other markup format.
2010-05-02 21:46:51 -04:00
Avery Pennarun
616d0680d1 Add a README file based on my blog entry. 2010-05-02 03:42:59 -04:00