OT: Cell phone connection to server

[Wolfgang S. Rupprecht]

aragonx at dcsnow.com writes:
> It has been suggested to me that we should setup a cell phone in a way
> that would allow us remote access to our Linux boxes in case of an
> emergency where the server was down (using a remote service board (ILO)).

There are smartphone clients for ssh.  I've got one on my Android phone
that lets me log into my Fedora box remotely.  see:
http://code.google.com/p/connectbot/

I only allow ssh RSA logins for security, so in my case I needed to make
a fresh RSA key and copy it to the phone's flash filesystem.  If you
allow un*x passwords, just installing the ssh client itself is
sufficient.

-wolfgang