[gopalv]

Are you thinking of something like the Blinkenlights Star Wars telnet demo from a while ago?

The "securing" part aside, ssh still gives you a whole terminal experience very similar to the telnet one & the ability to draw into it (like if you were using Emacs on the shell host).

You can set something like that up by forcing a command on ssh instead of a shell (like what github does for git).

[hultner]

Yeah I was thinking of something like that. But I still feel a bit uneasy with configuring OpenSSH securely, I’ve escaped such setups before, gaining full shell access through exploits. Maybe I’m overly paranoid.

[tinus_hn]

No you’re not, there are far too many unexplored interfaces.

Then again many programs aren’t secure against untrusted input either.