Yes, ssh is the thing you will be using in this work most of the time, and my ref to speakup was only with
regards to using it ssh-client side, i.e. on
my laptop, or some one's laptop, or an admin's work station.
There are GUI wrappers that can be used, but plain old ssh is just fine/write aliases to save having to
remember a lot of host names and or IPs, port
numbers etc.
A server admin lives in SSH, but of course if you come in after the fact you may find your life complicated
by things like webmin.
I'm not knocking webmin exactly, but once used you can be stuck having to use it forever . I'm not talking
about the admin being dumbed down, but that
could happen also I reckon, talking about some interesting ways software such as webmin does some things that
make it hard to use more "normal"
configurations after webmin has once been used toconfigure a given machine.
This is more what I have heard and read than what I've learned from personal experience, so I can't put it
in to quantitave terms, but just saying that
there will be cases where one must use control panels from a browser as well, and Orca will often come in
handy there, although some of the simpler ones
can be used with CLI browsers like llynx as well.
Regards,
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Alex Midence wrote:
Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 07:08:01PM -0600
Hi. Wanted to chime in. The posts on the mailing lists I have frequented over the years from people who do sys admin work also say they use ssh a lot with clients like Putty on Windows. I'm sure there are similar gui products with Orca on Linux that you can use to connect a laptop to a remote server. There's always just plain old ssh itself running Speakup locally through something like a Gnu-Screen session too. I understand there are blind people who also used Emacspeak to do server sysadmin work. I bring up remoting because so many servers have sound disabled and I also understand that they may view Speakup as a security vulnerability somehow. (Not sure about how that can be but, there you go.) So, it's important to get to know tools that let you access a server remotely. To Conclude, it is entirely feasible for you as a blind person to do this kind of job. Others have done so before you and, if they could, you can. Nuff said. Good luck and all the best! Alex M On 03/08/2016 04:51 PM, B. Henry wrote:No I do not have any Linux certs, but I will say that there is no reason you cn not do a good job managing Linux servers using speakup mostly, but sometimes Orca as well. All of the standard tools and utils I can think of work with speakup, but some that stream realtime data are of course harder to use as data is constantly being updated. When one must work with a tool like that you usually need to either slow down refresh rates quite a bit, or take snapshots of the system and use those. Often something can be piped to a filtering application, awk, sed, grep, etc to help by removing data one does not wish to her. Also speakup lets you block out parts of the screen in its read window mode so you can get rid of some distrctions. Of course to get a job and do it well you will need to be better than your sighted counterparts, but is this not usually the cse for anything we do? We will be slower having to listen to things than a sighted person will be reading it, so beiing better, i.e. cutting to the heart of a problem, knowing what to expect, etc. is of great importance when and where it is possible.
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