shellinabox

This is a fork of the project Shell In A Box. The fork was created because the original project was not maintained by the authorized author. He did provide some early support for the Debian package.

Our aim is to continue with maintenance of the shellinabox project. For a list of recent changes, please see CHANGELOG.md.

If you have any questions, issues, or patches, please feel free to submit a pull request or report an issue. You can also drop an email to the original project issue #261 discussion from where this fork started.

About shellinabox

Shell In A Box implements a web server that can export arbitrary command line tools to a web based terminal emulator. This emulator is accessible to any JavaScript and CSS enabled web browser and does not require any additional browser plugins.

More information:

• Manual page
• Official site
• Official wiki

Build

For building shellinabox from source on Debian or RHEL based systems use commands listed below. This will create executable file shellinaboxd in project directory.

1. Install dependencies

    apt-get install git libssl-dev libpam0g-dev zlib1g-dev dh-autoreconf
   

   or

   yum install git openssl-devel pam-devel zlib-devel autoconf automake libtool
   

2. Clone source files and move to project directory

    git clone https://github.com/shellinabox/shellinabox.git && cd shellinabox
   

3. Run autotools in project directory

    autoreconf -i
   

4. Run configure and make in project directory

    ./configure && make
   

Debian package

For building and installing .deb packages you can use commands listed bellow. Note that dependencies from the first step above are also required.

1. Build package

   dpkg-buildpackage -b
   

2. Install package

   dpkg -i ../shellinabox_{ver}_{arch}.deb
   

For more information about .deb packages please see INSTALL.Debian file.

Issues

All reported issues were imported from Google Code Project Issues. You can report new issues here, but first please try to reproduce them with package created from our sources. In new issue report please include following things:

• Name and version of your operating system
• Name and version of your browser
• Version of shellinabox
• Steps to reproduce the problem

Also feel free to post any questions or comments in shellinabox chat room on Gitter.

Known Issues

• The openssl package is required for HTTP/SSL support. Shell-in-a-box may be used without SSL such that the login session is not encrypted. To enable automatic creation of self-signed certificates or to use a generated certificate, install openssl.

• On Debian Jessie, the default openssl package does not include the utilities necessary for Shell-in-a-box to generate self-signed certificates. Upgrade openssl to install a version of the tools that support certificate creation.