Shell in a box
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Revision as of 16:57, 27 December 2011 by imported>ThorstenStaerk (→Co-exist with a web server)
Shell in a Box allows you to control a computer over the network using a Linux console in a web page.
- open a console as root.
- Download shell in a box from google
wget http://shellinabox.googlecode.com/files/shellinabox-2.10.tar.gz
- unpack it
tar xvzf shellinabox-2.10.tar.gz
- install some dependencies, in this example for SUSE Linux 12.1:
yast -i make
- build it
cd shellinabox-2.10 ./configure && make && make install
- make sure the firewall is open, here is an example for SUSE Linux:
rcSuSEfirewall2 stop
- add a user for shell in a box, in this example user
useradd -m user passwd user
- call shell in a box
shellinaboxd &
- test it by surfing to your computer: http://localhost:4200
use proxypass in the apache configuration to forward to its port
Co-exist with a web server
You probably want shell in a box to be reachable via port 80 (so you can use it from within a typical corporate network) and you may want to run a web server on the same machine. So here is how you integrate shell in a box into an Apache2 web server
- install apache2, in this example for SUSE Linux 12.1:
yast -i apache2
- enable a reverse proxy. To do this, edit /etc/sysconfig/apache2 and add the following words to APACHE_MODULES: proxy proxy_http. In the end your line may read like this:
APACHE_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic proxy proxy_http authn_file authz_host authz_groupfile authz_default authz_user autoindex cgi dir env expires include log_config mime negotiation setenvif ssl userdir php5"
See also
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