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Show HN: Linux server management over SSH – written in Rust and Tauri

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Re: Show HN: Linux server management over SSH – written in Rust and Tauri

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Post by dewey »

glitchcrab wrote: post #38
dewey wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most people already run software like that on their computer, even if it's just your coding harness that could just as easily run ssh and use your keys in ~/.ssh to connect to your servers. In my case I'd get a permission prompt from 1Password as I have my keys in there, but with all the prompts that a modern macOS throws at you the chances of it getting approved mistakenly are not zero. I'd not run OPs software eith…

Anyone who gives an LLM unfettered access to their ssh keys/agent socket deserves what they get IMO. I sandbox Claude with my own bubblewrap-based script which denies it access to anything I deem unnecessary.

There's many ways to shoot yourself into the foot, most things that run in your userspace can do evil things and it's not an LLM exclusive feature. Any npm package you install on your machine can put you in danger already if it executes some scripts.

Re: Show HN: Linux server management over SSH – written in Rust and Tauri

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Post by Arrowmaster »

freakynit wrote: post #21
ealhad wrote: post #19

I mean yeah sure, I'll give SSH access to a blackbox. "Don't worry — the app is safe."

Source code will be released day after tomorrow. I will add a comment in this thread itself, as well as update the site with a link to Github.

Why not make this post the day after tomorrow then instead of today?

Re: Show HN: Linux server management over SSH – written in Rust and Tauri

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Post by Arrowmaster »

Kuyawa wrote: post #34

Beautiful, I have a fetish for beautiful software so here goes my upvote ^ I believe more Rust/Tauri apps will flood the market as that's the best combo right now for desktop apps in universal knowledge reusability for those who come from the web world HTML, CSS, JS. Simplicity and portablility Just downloaded it and at 8MB is a thing of joy to see apps small again

Won't happen until Tauri can treat Linux as a first class platform. Which they cannot do because of architectural design and library choices.

Re: Show HN: Linux server management over SSH – written in Rust and Tauri

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Post by bigstrat2003 »

freakynit wrote: post #33
marcosscriven wrote: post #29

You have a never ending stream of show HN. It becomes meaningless. Show HN: Linux server management over SSH – written in Rust and Tauri 2 hours Show HN: The wanderer – cozy weekend game with no objective 14 days Show HN: Feature-packed 6MB Rust+Tauri free bookmarking app 16 days Show HN: HN-jobs aggregator – updated in real-time 27 days Show HN: One no-subscriptions online search for all your agent needs 30 days Sho…

I do. I love to build things, though these things are not that meaningful yet as I want them to be. Most of these (except last 3 and that 'A calculator CLI...') are being actively used by many. But I should not have shared a single `show hn` more than once.. that I will take care of going ahead.

If you truly love to build things, then actually build them, don't vibe code them.

Re: Show HN: Linux server management over SSH – written in Rust and Tauri

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Post by freakynit »

bigstrat2003 wrote: post #46
freakynit wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I do. I love to build things, though these things are not that meaningful yet as I want them to be. Most of these (except last 3 and that 'A calculator CLI...') are being actively used by many. But I should not have shared a single `show hn` more than once.. that I will take care of going ahead.

If you truly love to build things, then actually build them, don't vibe code them.

this is not vibe-coded... this is ai-assisted... also, i love building things.. using whatever that lets me build more efficiently.

Re: Show HN: Linux server management over SSH – written in Rust and Tauri

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Post by hn92726819 »

Arrowmaster wrote: post #40
omidmash wrote: post #27

Are you guys really letting a (as of now) non FOSS, presumably vibecoded app have access to your servers, presumably as root, as most people don't follow best practices?

The choice of Tauri for a Linux app using AppImage is a dead giveaway they have no clue what they are doing.

Can you expand on that? The point of an appimage is so you don't have any dependencies or linking errors. Rust can still link to libraries, so that doesn't seem to be a weird pattern to me.

Electron appimage would be weird though since it does all its bundling by itself

Re: Show HN: Linux server management over SSH – written in Rust and Tauri

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Post by Kuyawa »

Arrowmaster wrote: post #43
Kuyawa wrote: post #34

Beautiful, I have a fetish for beautiful software so here goes my upvote ^ I believe more Rust/Tauri apps will flood the market as that's the best combo right now for desktop apps in universal knowledge reusability for those who come from the web world HTML, CSS, JS. Simplicity and portablility Just downloaded it and at 8MB is a thing of joy to see apps small again

Won't happen until Tauri can treat Linux as a first class platform. Which they cannot do because of architectural design and library choices.

Is there any webview control ready to use in linux? When I say Tauri it's just the webview control, used as a cargo package as "wry" in macos. I don't care about the framework itself, just the webview control. If that's the case then Rust/(stripped down WebView) is all we need to be honest

Edit: Looks like the same "wry" package can be used in linux

https://github.com/tauri-apps/wry

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