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DRAWTERM(1)		    General Commands Manual		   DRAWTERM(1)

NAME
       drawterm	 - connection to cpu, fs, and auth servers

SYNOPSIS
       drawterm	 [  -GBO ] [ -h	host ] [ -u user ] [ -a	authserver ] [ -s sec-
       store ] [ -e 'crypt hash' ] [ -k	keypattern ] [ -p ] [ -t timeout  ]  [
       -r root ] [ -g geometry ] [ -c cmd ...]

DESCRIPTION
       Drawterm	 is  a	client for connecting venerable	systems	to Plan	9 sys-
       tems. The standard behavior with	no options  provided  is  to  begin  a
       graphical  session which	will prompt for	a cpu server, auth server, and
       password. If $USER is not set, drawterm will prompt for a  username  as
       well.

       The goal	of drawterm is to provide an abstraction layer from the	client
       operating system	to the desired Plan 9 system. Client-side devices that
       can be represented as filesystems will be and are served	from the name-
       space drawterm operates in. Generally, this means that drawterm behaves
       like a Plan 9 kernel and	will attempt to	reconstruct a Plan 9 terminal-
       like experience from a non-Plan 9 system.

       The options are:

       -G     Start drawterm in	text-only mode (no graphics).

       -B     Disable kbdfs.

       -O     Use  the	old  cpu(1)  to	 connect to the	cpu server rather than
	      rcpu(1).

       -h host
	      Connect to host for cpu.

       -u user
	      Remote user id.

       -a authserver
	      Connect to authserver for	auth.

       -s secstore
	      Sets the address of the secstore(8) server. If the -s option  is
	      absent,  secstore(1) will	attempt	to dial	tcp!$auth!secstore (or
	      the otherwise specified auth server).

       -e 'crypt hash'
	      Specifies	the 'crypt hash' for the connection.  The  default  is
	      'rc4_256	sha1'.	Usage  of  no  encryption  can be specified by
	      'clear' as per ssl(3).Notethatthisoptionisdeprecatedandonlyrele-
	      vanttotheoutdated	cpu(1) protocol.

       -k keypattern
	      Use keypattern to	select a key to	 authenticate  to  the	remote
	      side (see	auth(2)).

       -p     Protect the connection against connection	resets by establishing
	      aan(8) tunnel.

       -t timeout
	      Set the timeout for aan(8) to a value in seconds (default	is one
	      day).

       -r root
	      Specifies	the root directory on the client. The default is /root
	      and all further paths are	relative thereto.

       -c cmd ...
	      The  command  to run can be passed with -c cmd ..., otherwise an
	      interactive shell	is started. The	user's profile is  run	before
	      the command with $service	set to cpu to allow further customiza-
	      tion of the environment (see rc(1) for more information).

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
       USER   Unless otherwise specified, the user stored in $USER is used for
	      authentication.

       PASS   If $PASS is set, no password will	be prompted for	in authentica-
	      tion and the contents of $PASS will be used instead.

       cpu    Unless  otherwise	 specified, the	address	stored in $cpu is used
	      for the rcpu(1) connection (if set).

       auth   Unless otherwise specified, the address stored in	$auth is  used
	      for the rcpu(1) connection (if set).

SERVICES
       A  number of services are provided in drawterm. The exact functionality
       and availability	of certain features may	be dependent on	your  platform
       or architecture:

       /mnt/term
	      A	 mount of the client machine's root filesystem as well as cer-
	      tain virtual filesystems to present Plan 9  devices  and	inter-
	      faces  that  are not available on	non-Plan 9 systems. On Windows
	      this is a	directory containing the available lettered disks (C:,
	      A:, etc.). Additionally, there is	always a /mnt/term/root	folder
	      which is a copy of the client machine's namespace	with  no  vir-
	      tual  filesystems	present	as to avoid conflicting	names (such as
	      with Linux's /root).

       #b     Assuming the -B flag is not set, /dev/kbd	will be	 provided  for
	      kbdfs (see kbd(3)).

       #i     Assuming	the  -G	 flag is not set, various drawing device files
	      will be provided in /dev (see draw(3)).

       #m     Assuming the -G flag is not set, files for controlling the mouse
	      will provided in /dev (see mouse(3)).

       #c     A	number of console device files giving access  to  the  console
	      screen and miscellaneous information are provided	and mounted in
	      /dev (see	cons(3)).

       #I     The  network filesystem is served	and bound over /net, providing
	      the interface to Internet	Protocol stacks	(see ip(3)).

       #A     An audio device filesystem is served, if	possible,  as  a  one-
	      level  directory in /dev (see audio(3)).	Note that this device,
	      if unable	to be served, will not cause a panic in	drawterm.

EXAMPLES
       Make  a	headless  rcpu	session	 connecting  to	  10.30.167.25	 using
       plan9.postnix.us	as the auth server with	aan(8) enabled:

	      drawterm -G -h 10.30.167.25 -a plan9.postnix.us -p

       Make  a	session	 using cpu rather than rcpu to tenshi.postnix.us; this
       command is the same for connecting to a Plan 9 4th edition system:

	      drawterm -O -h tenshi.postnix.us

SOURCE
       https://git.9front.org/plan9front/drawterm/HEAD/info.html

SEE ALSO
       rc(1), cpu(1),  rcpu(1),	 con(1),  import(4),  exportfs(4),  tlssrv(8),
       aan(8)

BUGS
       Drawterm	is not a Plan 9	program.

HISTORY
       Drawterm	was originally developed by Russ Cox (rsc) for Plan 9 4th edi-
       tion.  This  original  version  is still	usable on Plan 9 and its forks
       which   use    the    p9sk1    and    older    authsrv(6)    protocols.
       https://swtch.com/drawterm/

       The  9front  project  has  forked drawterm to incorporate features from
       9front, most importantly	dp9ik authentication support (see  authsrv(6))
       and the TLS-based rcpu(1) protocol.

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