I love bash and I spend most of my time in a terminal so I needed a way to bring that environment over to my browser to make it confortable to run my servers.
Webpty is a zero config fat binary that “just work” from any server with any program (obviously including the likes of tmux, vim, emacs, …).
It is safe by default meaning:
- you can’t use webpty using HTTP at all
- it will create its own self signed certificates if you don’t supply your own
- rely on SSH to authorise users meaning only people who already have an account on the box can connect to webpty
- I have it exposed on the internet to manage my servers which run in prod at Filestash
In the roadmap:
- plugin mechanism to support additional user management mechanism, custom theme, logs, …
- optional proxy to make it possible to access your pi at home from a restricted network at work
- run webpty as a library so you can make a webshell for your own web application
Install
# arm build
curl -L -o webpty.bin "https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/webpty/releases/download/stable/webpty_linux_arm.bin"
# intel/amd
curl -L -o webpty.bin "https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/webpty/releases/download/stable/webpty_linux_amd64.bin"
# launch it
chmod +x webpty.bin
./webpty.bin
