Retroshare server password#
Retroshare server windows#

I know this post was supposed to be about draft control, but I couldn’t help throwing in this tidbit of info as well. I think that we take the three-point hitch for granted today because, for most of us, it has been around our entire lifetime. Unfortunately, in the 1920’s and 30’s there was really only one way to attach machinery by the drawbar.ĭrawn machinery worked, but it had several limitations.įirst, because the tractors of the time did not have remote hydraulics, plows and other machinery required forward movement to actuate the mechanical lift. These mechanical lifts worked fine in perfect conditions, but should the tractor get stuck they were incredibly difficult to deal with. My son, Will, running our 1948 Minneapolis-Moline UTU tractor and pulling a John Deere model 66 mechanical lift drag plow In the case of the draw plow, often the only option was to detach the tractor from the plow and try to pull it out backwards.

Retroshare server password#

There are valid security concerns about placing your password in plain text, but until RetroShare-nogui has an autologin feature I am unaware of another solution for autostart.Second, implements such as gang disks and many three-bottom plows could not be backed up. During start up RetroShare will pause at the password prompt and you can provide it manually.

If you do not do this, you can still log in and start retroshare manually. Be aware of escape sequences if your password uses special characters. If you choose to use this you will have to provide Your GPG Retroshare Password in the field 'GPG_PASS'. Since this is not supported by retroshare expect is used to imput the password for you. The only additional configuration is to allow automatic startup of retroshare-nogui. They are simply the SSH credentials you'll need to configure on a client to access the RPC interface. Note that the port, username, and password used for SSH have no relation to your RetroShare account.

The other SSH fields are self explanatory, just be sure you provide a local host port for the RPC access (seperate from port 22 referenced before, and not the port RetroShare is using). To create a password for the retroshare SSH access (for RPC clients) run the command:Ĭopy the HASH that it provides and place it in the SSH_PASSWDHASH field of the run_retro_nogui.sh file. Additionally, retroshare is started with the SSH server and RPC interface enabled allowing for the use of see the retroshare wiki for more information. Simply shut down the graphical retroshare and edit the ~/run_retro_nogui.sh script. This container will allow the autostart and auto login of retroshare-nogui after you've configured your retroshare instance. This is of little concern if you are only using the GUI for occasional configuration and running 'nogui' the majority of the time.

Retroshare server windows#

In my testing winswitch tends to leave zombie XPRA windows open on the server. The Xpra included is from the winswitch team and allows for remote access to the machine similar to VNC with compression on the graphical interface. For an easy way to access the server from a windows machine see winswitch. Once you are attached to the xpra display you can configure the Retroshare server.

In general it is a good idea to close the xpra session xpra stop :100 and shut down the screen session (simply attach and disconnect like any terminal) before re-running one of the startup scripts. For more information on Screen and Xpra see their respective man pages online.