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Shell in a box for Archlinux
An AJAX web-based fullscreen terminal emulator where you can mark an copy text (depending on your browser, according to my tests opera is optimal). Forget Ajaxterm! You find shellinabox in the AUR.
Installation
Using aurget
aurget -S shellinabox
or manual
wget https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/sh/shellinabox/shellinabox.tar.gz tar xvzf shellinabox.tar.gz cd shellinabox wget http://shellinabox.googlecode.com/files/shellinabox-2.14.tar.gz # you need several dependings makepkg sudo pacman -U shellinabox-2.14-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
Configuration
To get an ssh login on the machine shellinabox is running on use –service=/:SSH. I had it running with login service but don't get it again.
edit /etc/conf.d/shellinaboxd and set the options
--background=/var/run/shellinaboxd.pid --port=8888 --service=/:SSH --css=/usr/share/doc/shellinabox/white-on-black.css --cert=/tmp/
or other if you like
Perhaps you want to use –localhost-only so only your HTTP Proxy could access the web-interface. Otherwise on a system with an public IP everyone could connect to the web-interface.
The certificate in tmp because shellinabox create the certificate himself while running as nobody so it needs a place where it could write
Enable and start service
systemctl enable shellinaboxd
systemctl start shellinaboxd
Additional infos
Path to css files
./usr/share/doc/shellinabox/white-on-black.css ./usr/share/doc/shellinabox/black-on-white.css ./usr/share/doc/shellinabox/color.css ./usr/share/doc/shellinabox/monochrome.css
I could build shellinabox with your manual way. But after installing via Pacman, there is no file /etc/conf.d/shellinaboxd. I i generate this file manulay and enter your content, this file seems to be ignored by shellinabox, if i run it. However, i can start shellinabox with the Options you specified on Commandline. Also i have a problem to use shellinabox as a service. If try to start it with “systemctl start shellinaboxd”, i get the message “Failed to start shellinaboxd.service: Unit shellinaboxd.service failed to load: No such file or directory.”. Could you please update your HowTo a little bit?
PTW: The Url to https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/sh/shellinabox/shellinabox.tar.gz is outdated.