[TriLUG] Recommendations for web-based remote terminal?

[Paul McLanahan]

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Mark Kempster<mark at kempster.org> wrote:
> I'm having trouble ssh'ing from $WORK to $HOME via the usual suspects.
> I know port 80 is open, and I remember seeing some magical gizmo that
> seemed to host a terminal-like session in a browser, but that was more
> functional than webmin's one-command-at-a-time interface.
>
> My two objectives are easy-to-deploy, and most-like-an-xterm.
>
> Any packages you've used that you particularly like? Dislike?

I haven't installed it on my own machines, but my VPS host (Slicehost)
uses AjaxTerm, and it's worked very well for me.

http://antony.lesuisse.org/software/ajaxterm/

It's an "aptitude install ajaxterm" away if you're using a Debian-based system.

hth,

Paul