Shell in a box

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

See also

• http://http://code.google.com/p/shellinabox/

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