Linux/Raspberry - Web SSH Shell (No client needed)

You probably access you linux machines via SSH using a client like Putty.

With Shell In A Box, you get the same SSH access but without any client, you just use a browser that shows you the the SSH connection via HTTPS.

This might be usefull in some scenario, so I’m going to show you how to set up it bellow.

To install just type:

sudo apt-get install shellinabox

and that’s it once it finished installing, Shell In A Box is running, just go to you browser and enter this

https://<Machine_IP>:4200/

and you should get this

now just login and that’s it.

If you want to change something (ex: the 4200 port) you just edit this file:

nano /etc/default/shellinabox

FILE: shellinabox
----------------------------

# Should shellinaboxd start automatically
SHELLINABOX_DAEMON_START=1

# TCP port that shellinboxd's webserver listens on
SHELLINABOX_PORT=4200

# Parameters that are managed by the system and usually should not need
# changing:
# SHELLINABOX_DATADIR=/var/lib/shellinabox
# SHELLINABOX_USER=shellinabox
# SHELLINABOX_GROUP=shellinabox

# Any optional arguments (e.g. extra service definitions).  Make sure
# that that argument is quoted.
#
#   Beeps are disabled because of reports of the VLC plugin crashing
#   Firefox on Linux/x86_64.
SHELLINABOX_ARGS="--no-beep"

and do

 sudo service shellinabox restart

to load the new configuration.