web based shell access without x

[Scott C. Ripley]

along similar lines, some useful SSH related tools here:
   http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=60894

including a SSH applet...



On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, Marcel Gagne wrote:

>
> 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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