Re: [sshmenu] (no subject)

[Grant M. <gr...@mc...>]

Hi

On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 11:58 +0200, ste...@fr... wrote:
> 
> I want to used your application.
> I have a little problem on it: i must used tsock to connect to my server.
> So my question is: Who can i launch tsock before ssh command ?
> in xterm, i must write :
> tsocks -on;sleep 5;ssh ai...@to...

I'm not familiar with tsocks but you should be able to achieve what you
want easily by overriding the 'ssh_command' method in the SSHMenu::App
class.  That might sound hard if you've never programmed in Ruby, but
there are a number of resources on the web site that you can use to
reach a solution.

Nicholas Roman wrote an article that described how to customise SSHMenu
to use a different terminal program (instead of gnome-terminal):

  http://sshmenu.sourceforge.net/articles/terminator.html

In his example, he overrode the 'build_window_command' method but you
would want to override 'ssh_command'.  Normally this method just returns
'ssh' but if you simply changed it to return 'tsocks-ssh' you could
write a tsocks-ssh shell script that does what you need.


Do all your SSH connections need to use tsocks?  If not, you might want
to add a checkbox to the host dialog.  There's an article on the web
site that describes doing that to allow some connections to use telnet
and some to use SSH:

  http://sshmenu.sourceforge.net/articles/sshtelnetmenu.html


To debug your customisations, you can run the /usr/bin/sshmenu-gnome
command - that will be easier that restarting the applet.  Once you have
your customisations working in the standalone menu program you can just
log out and back in to have the applet pick up the new code (or remove
the applet from the panel and add it again).

Cheers
Grant