Comments on: AnyTerm package added

By: Scott Ullrich

Scott Ullrich — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 04:39:34 +0000

Another use for this package: http://dev.chromium.org/chromium-os

By: Les

Les — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 01:15:24 +0000

We keep SSH blocked from public access due to some vulnerabilities. This is a very nice add and significantly narrows down the possible avenues the bad guys have for hacking the system for access. Thank you very much for this addition.

And as a side note, I am sincerely honored to have the opportunity to make a comment on the same page as Scott Ullrich. My hat’s off with a bow.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:19:08 +0000

Very useful – don’t forget some of us are stuck behind corp firewalls which will happily allow AJAX over HTTPS but sure as hell won’t allow SSH (Technically I’m sure you could wing it so you can HTTP Connect to SSH, but a decent firewall will spot pack of RFC2246 handshake and kill it)

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:29:29 +0000

Kinda of a crazy request, but this post made me think about it again.

I thought it would be cool, if a Terminal Emulator was built into the webgui, and could talk to other devices via the serial port. I know it could have save someone a trip or two.

Still it’s nice to have the Terminal in the Gui! Nice one pfsense!

By: JT

JT — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:16:08 +0000

Scott…great add. Remember, some people just lack imagination on the possibilities and options!

By: Minh Duc

Minh Duc — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 05:23:26 +0000

I think the Anyterm package help us to apply in specific situation like this:

1. Authenticate using ssh ( no need install ssh client on device), all what user need is web browser

–> User can change their password or doing something via web browser ( it is very useful if user using PDA device)

2. Combine with User Shell for Authenticating Gateways in openbsd/freebsd to improve the WEP Security.

–> User ( laptop or PDA device…no ssh client installed ) can use web browser to authenticate get again access via access point.

3. … try think more

If there is something wrong …please correct me.

Thanks,

Regards,

Minh Duc

By: Scott Ullrich

Scott Ullrich — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:25:29 +0000

There is noting special about using this vs a normal SSH. If you do not have a clear need for this package then it is not for you and that is the beauty of our pkg system.

By: Laith Z.

Laith Z. — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 06:22:08 +0000

I have a question here.

What makes it special if we are able to enable ssh and login remotely, is there any special features over using a remote shell login?

Thanks

By: Nestorfish

Nestorfish — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:13:14 +0000

I may appear old-fashioned, but why provide cli through webgui instead of webgui through ssh tunnel? I’m aware about web browsers being more common than ssh clients, but aren’t the latter potentially more robust?