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Robo-TiTO
Robo-TiTO gives you an alternative access to a remote machine terminal.
Main Objective
Sometimes you cannot reach an ssh ip:port of an host by a lot of reasons:
- host is behind NAT
- firewall protection
- remote host with dynamic ip
- port redirections
- annoying administrators
Robo-TiTO allows you circumvent these problems and execute commands remotely on your server.
Get involved
Drop a
Description
This is a light-weight bot connecting through XMPP (eg.: GTalk) that allows you run shell command remotely. Robo-TiTO will not open a port to be accessed, instead of that, it will connect to a jabber service. You send your commands in a chat session and receive terminal output back. You will be "talking" to your server like you always did, but now you will get some answers from it.
Requirements
- Ruby >= 2.0.0
Installation
bundle install
# adjust the bot credentials and server settings using the example file provided
cp config/credentials.rb.example config/credentials.rb
vim config/credentials.rb
start with
./robotitod start
check additional available options with
./robotitod -h
Authentication
Robo-TiTO uses OTP (One Time Password) for authentication. You can use Google Authenticator, available for Android and iPhone, You just need to add a time based account entry with the credentials you specified in the credentials.rb file.
Thanks
Philippe Creux and its suggestion on gist