ssh-chat

I've been interested in making a TUI application and learning Rust for a while now. Since some friends and family started playing poker, I found it a good opportunity to make my "learning Rust" project a poker TUI app. Inspired by https://github.com/shazow/ssh-chat, I also wanted to make something that could be connected to and played with just using SSH. For me, poker is usually with friends and family, so I focused the app's target audience to be private, small-scale games, avoiding the headaches associated with scaling to some massive web-based platform. Big thanks again to the folks that've already taught me some cool things about Rust and UI design.

See also: ssh-chat by shazow from ~10 years ago written in Go ssh chat.shazow.net The most amazing part is perhaps the fact that this one is still around, 10 years later! Try it yourself and you’ll see :) Discussion at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8743374 Source code in GitHub repo here: https://github.com/shazow/ssh-chat

The go ssh packages are a popular choice: https://github.com/shazow/ssh-chat https://github.com/zachlatta/sshtron https://github.com/quackduck/devzat https://github.com/donuts-are-good/shhhbb/ There's also a assembly library: https://2ton.com.au/sshtalk/ And for rust there's trush, and for python paramiko as mentioned. > expose a TUI/cli-app over ssh without actually caring about securing OpenSSH If you already have an app, see maybe: https://drewdevault.com/2019/09/02/Interactive-SSH-programs....

> The Hack Club Slack Imagine making a job board work over ssh and then using slack to communicate. Especially when things like this exist and are much more in the spirit: https://github.com/shazow/ssh-chat

I had a play around with the Browser SSH terminal a few weeks ago, as well as getting actual hosts setup I managed to get ssh-chat[1] working on there which was fun. (see: https://twitter.com/JoeBanksDev/status/1382836730651410433) The feature that interests me is the auditable portion of it, MITM recording of SSH & RDP sessions sounds very useful. From the blog post announcing this [2]: > Cloudflare Zero Trust Apps will record the screen of any session, batch the recordings in intervals, and send them to a storage location you have configured. We’ll be adding structured command logging and keyboard input to this flow as well. [1] https://github.com/shazow/ssh-chat [2] https://blog.cloudflare.com/browser-ssh-terminal-with-auditi...

we run a copy of this as a super duper backup: https://github.com/shazow/ssh-chat

If golang is your thing, take a look at this[0] or that[1]. You can probably find similar ones with some quick research. The neat part is that you can easily pull down someone's github keys and automatically authenticate them against that identity. You can follow up with an email/password registration as a backup identity provider, if you really want to push the envelope (and save the public key for future automatic authentication). Of course, if you're just looking to hack something together quickly, you can simply force a specific command to be run. [0]: https://github.com/shazow/ssh-chat [1]: https://github.com/gliderlabs/ssh

There's a bug that is crashing it, alas. https://github.com/shazow/ssh-chat/issues/166 Pretty sure the bug is in the autocomplete function, if anyone wants to tackle it. I might disable it for now.

Hey everyone, thanks for dropping by the main ssh-chat server (chat.shazow.net). That one is running a fairly old version of the software (/uptime -> 13579h33m20.784837542s). I just deployed the latest Github release on an east-coast server here, please come help test it: ssh chat2.shazow.net Binary releases are available here if you're interested in running your own: https://github.com/shazow/ssh-chat/releases/

Neat stuff. You could use this to let users identify themselves to services/ssh services via pubkey as their GitHub username - like https://github.com/shazow/ssh-chat - but with users automatically unique and identified by GitHub.

I seem to recall this being on HN a few months ago: https://github.com/shazow/ssh-chat