Ryan McCoskrie wrote, On 23/03/10 10:42:
On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 08:25:50 C. Falconer wrote:
Hi all - with respect to horse, how many of the current users make use
of the webshell running on port 443?
That webshell looks really cool! What do people use it for?
Accessing horse from sites that only allow http/https access out.
It was originally an ssh app for the iphone, hence the onscreen keyboard
thing.
Why? http requests can be transparently proxied/logged and the user
has no idea or control of this.
Meanwhile, https can be logged but it cannot be proxied, so while a
firewall operator might see you going to
https://yourbank.co.nz/accounts/balances they cannot read the page content.
So, running an ssh app on that port allowed users to access horse via
ssh without actually being able to connect out on port 22.
If you're interested, look in /opt/WebShell on horse.
Its run as
screen -d -m /opt/WebShell/webshell.py
Source is in /usr/src/WebShell*
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Craig Falconer
