webmux

webmux is an open-source web based SSH terminal multiplexer.

webmux uses the Twisted framework for Python, Backbone.js, and sockjs.

Running webmux

To install, first install the libffi package (required by cffi, a dependency of Twisted):

sudo yum install libffi-devel libpython-dev libssl-dev

Or:

sudo apt-get install libffi-dev

Then, install using pip:

sudo pip install webmux

Or:

git clone https://github.com/ronreiter/webmux.git
cd webmux
sudo python setup.py install

And then run webmuxd:

webmuxd

You can then access webmux via:

http://localhost:8080

Command line parameters

To run webmux on a different port, use the -p parameter. For example, to run webmux on port 8081, use:

webmuxd -p 8081

Running webmux as a service

To run as a service, use your favorite service runner. For example, to use upstart, create a file called webmuxd.conf in your /etc/init directory, that contains:

description "webmuxd"

start on runlevel [2345]
stop on runlevel [016]

respawn
exec /usr/bin/webmuxd

TODOs

• implement tabs properly
• remove references to focusedTerminal in favor of backbone triggered events, and fix focus issues
• support keyboard-interactive method (https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4256.txt)
• several other terminal features described in Christopher's tty.js project
• make font size customizable
• support putty keys
• verify SSH host keys
• proper mouse support
• SCP file copy on drag & drop to home directory
• SCP file browser
• go over code and fix all TODOs
• convert connections dictionary into an ORM
• convert in-memory windows and terminals into an ORM, perhaps support restarts
• Add LDAP authentication
• "Don't remember me" in login

Contributors

webmux is based on code from Christopher Jeffrey's tty.js project:

https://github.com/chjj/tty.js

Troubleshooting

Part of the dependencies require compiling code. On Macs, a recent change to the compiler made the following command necessary when compiling packages with warnings in their code.

sudo ARCHFLAGS="-Wno-error=unused-command-line-argument-hard-error-in-future" pip install webmux

License

Copyright (c) 2014, Ron Reiter (MIT License)