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Re: Secure Shell chrome (killer) app

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Post by gcb » Mon, Apr 30, 2012, 8:17 PM UTC

gfodor wrote: post #21

this is insanely awesome. as it stands right now, yes its "just ssh". But open up the developer toolbar and you'll notice this thing is rendering HTML inside of webkit. It doesn't take a genius to see this is a few baby steps from making it possible to render arbitrary graphics in the shell. edit: I might go out on a limb here and say this project is something that is going to be looked at as a real inflection point…

as the day SSH became vulnerable to CSS cross-domain exploits :)

Re: Secure Shell chrome (killer) app

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Post by rjv » Mon, Apr 30, 2012, 8:17 PM UTC

eridius wrote: post #23

Can someone please explain to me why I would possibly want to run a terminal emulator inside of my web browser, instead of just using the terminal emulator app that my system ships with?

Do Chromebooks ship with a terminal application? If not, that would be a good use case.

Re: Secure Shell chrome (killer) app

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Post by UrLicht » Mon, Apr 30, 2012, 8:17 PM UTC

eridius wrote: post #23

Can someone please explain to me why I would possibly want to run a terminal emulator inside of my web browser, instead of just using the terminal emulator app that my system ships with?

The whole "Chrome as OS" thing will benefit from this.

Re: Secure Shell chrome (killer) app

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Post by mgurlitz » Mon, Apr 30, 2012, 8:18 PM UTC

dangrossman wrote: post #20

ig1 wrote: post #13

Has anyone code reviewed this to make sure it's not stealing credentials, etc. ?

Beyond that, you must trust the author, since Chrome may auto-update the extension to a future version that could steal credentials.

The author (rginda, http://www.hacksrus.com/~ginda/) is a Google Chrome developer. You're probably already trusting his code by running Chrome.

Re: Secure Shell chrome (killer) app

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Post by rginda » Mon, Apr 30, 2012, 8:19 PM UTC

drivebyacct2 wrote: post #22

I thought NaCl couldn't open raw (tcp) sockets? I thought it was limited to WebSockets.

This app is part of a small whitelist of apps that can make this type of connection. It's a temporary solution though. The Chrome team is working on ways to make the functionality more widely available.

Re: Secure Shell chrome (killer) app

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Post by gcb » Mon, Apr 30, 2012, 8:19 PM UTC

julianb wrote: post #28

eridius wrote: post #23

Can someone please explain to me why I would possibly want to run a terminal emulator inside of my web browser, instead of just using the terminal emulator app that my system ships with?

One use case would be ssh over http. Corporate proxies often disallow ssh traffic.

No. from the page "It uses Native-Client to connect directly to ssh servers without the need for external proxies." it IS a ssh client. no http proxies.

Re: Secure Shell chrome (killer) app

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Post by gcb » Mon, Apr 30, 2012, 8:21 PM UTC

eridius wrote: post #23

Can someone please explain to me why I would possibly want to run a terminal emulator inside of my web browser, instead of just using the terminal emulator app that my system ships with?

it's a toy for now. don't over think it. But it have fun possibilities.

Re: Secure Shell chrome (killer) app

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Post by bjg » Mon, Apr 30, 2012, 8:21 PM UTC

eridius wrote: post #23

Can someone please explain to me why I would possibly want to run a terminal emulator inside of my web browser, instead of just using the terminal emulator app that my system ships with?

I'm guessing if you have a chrome book it would be a nice solution.

Re: Secure Shell chrome (killer) app

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Post by julianb » Mon, Apr 30, 2012, 8:28 PM UTC

gcb wrote: post #36

julianb wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One use case would be ssh over http. Corporate proxies often disallow ssh traffic.

No. from the page "It uses Native-Client to connect directly to ssh servers without the need for external proxies." it IS a ssh client. no http proxies.

That's right. But Secure Shell also knows how to connect to an HTTP-to-ssh relay.

Re: Secure Shell chrome (killer) app

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Post by rginda » Mon, Apr 30, 2012, 8:30 PM UTC

roadnottaken wrote: post #26

gabeiscoding wrote: post #5

Very cool, but I fired up an emacs session and hit Ctrl+N to start scrolling through a file.... doh!

htop breaks it, too -- but it actually does a pretty good job considering how complex the output is.

I think the htop bug was fixed by https://gerrit.chromium.org/gerrit/21255. You should get it in the next version of Secure Shell.