drawterm(1)

Usage

drawterm [-d] [-a authserver] [-c cpuserver] [-e encription_hash_algs] [-k keyspec] [-s secstoreserver] [-u username] [-C command args ...]

Overview

drawterm is not a Plan 9 program. It is a program that users of non-Plan 9 systems can use to establish graphical cpu(1) connections with Plan 9 CPU servers. Just as a real Plan 9 terminal does, a drawterm serves its local name space as well as some devices (the keyboard, mouse, and screen) to a remote CPU server, which mounts this name space on /mnt/term and starts a shell. Typically, either explicitly or via the profile, one uses the shell to start rio(1).

By default, drawterm uses the CPU server $cpu or cpu, and the authentication server $auth or auth,

Options

This program follows the syntax of the cpu(1) Plan 9 command.

A summary of options is included below.

-h: Show summary of options.

-a: Specifies the authentication server to use. If not present uses the $auth environment variable, if present, or tries with a host name of auth.

-c: Specifies the cpu server to use. If not present uses the $cpu environment variable, if present, or tries with a host name of cpu.

-u: Specifies the username to authenticate with. If not present uses the $USER environment variable, if present, or asks interactively for an username.

-s: Specifies the secstore server to use.

-C: Specifies a command to be executed remotely.

-e,-k: Allow for selecting the hash algorithm and keys used, they have the same meaning as in cpu(1).

Source

In Plan 9 distributions, /sys/src/cmd/unix/drawterm.

Diagnostics

Drawterm prints most diagnostics in its own window.

Releases

Unchanged in 8 releases since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze).