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Mac SE SSHKeys?

SECoyote

New member
Hello,
I am new to the 68k Forms. I am still pretty new at Vintage Macs but thankfully I have System 7.0 Installed on my Mac. I was hoping to do some SSH Tunneling using my Mac SE. I have a PISCSI that I still need to properly configure to get internet working on my Mac, but once I do i was wondering if I could generate SSH Keys on it to make a secure connection onto other devices, or if it's just better to SSH into the Raspberry Pi and then tunnel into other computers.
What are your thoughts?
 

zigzagjoe

Well-known member
You'll need to telnet into the pi (or use serial) and SSH from there. A 68040 struggles with SSH encryption, a unacceelerated SE is not going to manage to complete it before things time out.
 

Mk.558

Well-known member
The only two programs I know of are MacSSH and NiftyTelnet.


Only one of those does SSHv2, and it only works on 7.5 or higher. System 7.5 is already sluggish on a SE/30, on a SE it's even worse. On top of that the SE only gets 4MB of RAM, and 7.5 likes to use up lots of memory.

The easiest thing to do is to run ZTerm or MacTerminal 2.2 under System 6 to either run a serial console or telnet. As a general rule, the SE should mostly run System 6, unless you need to run System 7 for certain things. Even a SE/30 with a lot of quality of life upgrades (like Now Menus and stuff) runs 7.0/7.1 ... Not fast, but not that slow. At least under System 6 you have a shot at running it on a RAM disk.
 

SECoyote

New member
The only two programs I know of are MacSSH and NiftyTelnet.


Only one of those does SSHv2, and it only works on 7.5 or higher. System 7.5 is already sluggish on a SE/30, on a SE it's even worse. On top of that the SE only gets 4MB of RAM, and 7.5 likes to use up lots of memory.

The easiest thing to do is to run ZTerm or MacTerminal 2.2 under System 6 to either run a serial console or telnet. As a general rule, the SE should mostly run System 6, unless you need to run System 7 for certain things. Even a SE/30 with a lot of quality of life upgrades (like Now Menus and stuff) runs 7.0/7.1 ... Not fast, but not that slow. At least under System 6 you have a shot at running it on a RAM disk.
I see thank you, I'll try system 6 out and see if I can at least SSH into my Raspberry Pi, maybe from there I can tunnel to other machines and code from there
 
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