/wetty

Terminal in browser over http/https. (Ajaxterm/Anyterm alternative, but much better)

Primary LanguageTypeScriptMIT LicenseMIT

WeTTY = Web + TTY.

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Documentation License: MIT

Terminal access in browser over http/https

WeTTY

Terminal over HTTP and https. WeTTY is an alternative to ajaxterm and anyterm but much better than them because WeTTY uses xterm.js which is a full fledged implementation of terminal emulation written entirely in JavaScript. WeTTY uses websockets rather than Ajax and hence better response time.

Prerequisites

  • node >=18
  • make
  • python
  • build-essential

Install

npm -g i wetty

Usage

$ wetty --help
Options:
  --help, -h      Print help message                                   [boolean]
  --version       Show version number                                  [boolean]
  --conf          config file to load config from                       [string]
  --ssl-key       path to SSL key                                       [string]
  --ssl-cert      path to SSL certificate                               [string]
  --ssh-host      ssh server host                                       [string]
  --ssh-port      ssh server port                                       [number]
  --ssh-user      ssh user                                              [string]
  --title         window title                                          [string]
  --ssh-auth      defaults to "password", you can use "publickey,password"
                  instead                                               [string]
  --ssh-pass      ssh password                                          [string]
  --ssh-key       path to an optional client private key (connection will be
                  password-less and insecure!)                          [string]
  --ssh-config    Specifies an alternative ssh configuration file. For further
                  details see "-F" option in ssh(1)                     [string]
  --force-ssh     Connecting through ssh even if running as root       [boolean]
  --known-hosts   path to known hosts file                              [string]
  --base, -b      base path to wetty                                    [string]
  --port, -p      wetty listen port                                     [number]
  --host          wetty listen host                                     [string]
  --command, -c   command to run in shell                               [string]
  --allow-iframe  Allow wetty to be embedded in an iframe, defaults to allowing
                  same origin                                          [boolean]

Open your browser on http://yourserver:3000/wetty and you will prompted to login. Or go to http://yourserver:3000/wetty/ssh/<username> to specify the user beforehand.

If you run it as root it will launch /bin/login (where you can specify the user name), else it will launch ssh and connect by default to localhost. The SSH connection can be forced using the --force-ssh option.

If instead you wish to connect to a remote host you can specify the --ssh-host option, the SSH port using the --ssh-port option and the SSH user using the --ssh-user option.

Check out the Flags docs for a full list of flags

Docker container

To use WeTTY as a docker container, a docker image is available on docker hub. To run this image, use

docker run --rm -p 3000:3000 wettyoss/wetty --ssh-host=<YOUR-IP>

and you will be able to open a ssh session to the host given by YOUR-IP under the URL http://localhost:3000/wetty.

It is recommended to drive WeTTY behind a reverse proxy to have HTTPS security and possibly Let’s Encrypt support. Popular containers to achieve this are nginx-proxy and traefik. For traefik there is an example docker-compose file in the containers directory.

FAQ

Check out the docs

What browsers are supported?

WeTTY supports all browsers that xterm.js supports.

Author

πŸ‘€ Cian Butler butlerx@notthe.cloud

Contributing ✨

Contributions, issues and feature requests are welcome!
Feel free to check issues page.

Please read the development docs for installing from source and running is dev node

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