Login to UNIX from the browser.

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Hi All,
I need to login to the UNIX server from the browser. can you please tell me the procedure?

Thanks
Sarwan

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Not possible, unless the server admin installs some special software that can run an terminal emulation inside a browser window. This, however, is highly discouraged, because if set up wrong (which is quite possible for anyone not experienced enough with UNIX to require such a thing) it would probably open up security holes as large as the distance between the galaxies.

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Hi Pludi,
Thanks for your quick response. We are able to open Dev server through the browser, but unable to open the UAT server. Can you tell which configuration file or set up I have to compare between these two environment. (FYI: we have not used these two servers for long time, now we are using it. No one aware when was the last time logined into UAT server through the browser)

Thanks
Sarwan

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What is an UAT server? What do you mean by "login to the server"? Open a webpage there, or really get shell access? What OS are the servers running?

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We have 2 servers, 1 for development environment, 1 for test environment (UAT), All these 2 are UNIX(SunOS 5.6) servers. I can open the dev server from the browser like http : // system name .com /emp then the browser will show the directories which are all in under emp directory. Similary I want the same for test server, but I am getting page can't found.

Thanks
Sarwan

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OK, so it has nothing to do with logging in, but just getting a directory listing from the HTTP server.

Make sure that the test server has some kind of web server installed (Apache or similar). When that's done, check the configuration (apache.conf for Apache 1.x, httpd.conf for Apache 2.x) to make sure that directory listing is allowed (for Apache it's "Options +Indexes" as a per-directory directive)