A simple dgamelaunch client

This is a very simple utility to do away with messing with your ssh config & the shell’s DGLAUTH environment variable. Instead you simply declare your accounts in $HOME/.config/ssh-hack.rktd invoke as ssh-hack <alias>, where <alias> is either a hostname or an alias specified in the configuration file. You can get a list of accounts configured with ssh-hack -l.

Install

Package on pkgs.racket-lang.org

Only Unix-likes are supported at the moment.

Install via raco pkg install ssh-hack and ensure your user’s Racket bin/ directory is in your path.

ssh-hack.rktd format

This contains a list of dgamelaunch connection configurations.

Example

Note: the list isn’t quoted because it is parsed using (read) which quotes it for you.

See example-ssh-hack.rktd

(#s{service
    #s{ssh-server "nethack" "alt.org" 22}
    ("nao" "alt")
    "your-DGL-auth-username"
    "your-DGL-auth-password"}
 #s{service
   #s{ssh-server "ssh-username" "ssh-host" 22}
   ("aliases" "to" "use" "here") ; or #f to only match by ssh-host
   "your-other-DGL-auth-username"
   "your-other-DGL-auth-password"})

Some ideas for improvement

• Add a layer to automate tedious tasks - such as Elbereth spam, or testing if a BoH is cursed.
• Support Windows.
• Add documentation to the help message.
• Add documentation to docs.racket-lang.org.
• Support telnet for Dgamelaunch services that don’t support ssh.