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Help for ssh


While PyLily supports lily clients such as clily and tlily, you'll get the most 
out of it if connect directly to it using SSH. Features such as line editing, 
history, and auto-completion of previous sendlists which previously required a 
client are all available when connecting to PyLily over SSH, and doing so also 
provies the ability to support direct input and output of Unicode characters if 
you connect from a terminal which supports UTF-8 encoding, as well as rich text 
and coloring on terminals which support ANSI standards for that.

In addition to automatically detecting your terminal type, connecting via SSH 
will also allow PyLily to automatically determine your terminal width and it 
will adjust wrapping of output accordingly.

Connecting via SSH also gives you the option to use public-key based 
authentication instead of entering a password every time.

PyLily can also act as an SFTP or scp server, allowing you to transfer info and 
memos for yourself and for discussions you own to and from PyLily without having
to copy/paste them into the terminal. If you have "helper" privileges, you can 
also update help pages this way.

See "/help ssh public_key" for information on setting up SSH public key 
authentication on PyLily.

See "/help sending" for details on PyLily's Unicode, rich text, and color 
support.

(subtopics: public_key)
(see also: sending)