web based shell access without x

[Marcel Gagne]

Hello Teddy Mills,

On Wednesday 03 January 2007 14:46, Teddy David Mills wrote:
> I am often at remote locations around town trying to login to my server.
> For security reasons, usually I do not have access to a shell to start
> with. I setup my last server with X windows, VNC, portforwarding etc.
> So I could login to my server via any internet web browser and have
> shell access to my home server.
>
> This time I am not running X.

Hmm . . . some thoughts up front and perhaps you can explain why these might 
or might not work for you. First of all, Webmin, which is available via any 
browser, does have a Java SSH client built in (and telnet, too). Just go to :

    http://yourserver:10000/telnet

You can also use VNC in a Java enabled-browser. Instead of connecting to port 
5900 as you would with the vncviewer program, use this link instead.

   http://yourserver:5800/

Or 5801 or 5802, etc, depending on the session number (you could have multiple 
VNC sessions, of course).

You didn't say what your client box was, but I'm assuming Windows. 
Nevertheless, you could run nxserver (FreeNX) on your server and connect 
using the Windows (or Linux) nxclient. It's fast, not resource intensive, 
works over SSH (standard port or whatever you like), and it's just like being 
there. I use nxclient all the time and I get full graphical desktop on 
machines hundreds and even thousands of miles away.

Hope some of this helps.

Take care out there.

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