SSH anywhere on anything
Posted: Oct 08, 2008 Category: command-line
Notice you have a bug in your site but your at work with a proxy in place? On your friends computer who doesn't want you installing Putty? Have no fear, consoleFISH is here!
Using AJAX based consoleFISH you can log into any server via SSH and have full access to your site over this funky emulated bash terminal. It's so effective I managed to fix the news admin panel for this site (so I could post this article) in less than a minute.
It has a very new version of vim and colours files, text and syntax just like normal.
The downsides however are quite large. There is a captcha that contains obscure badly displayed words that kicks in roughly every 45 seconds unless you 3 euro's a month. Then there's the tin-hat crowd who I am sure will not like the idea of sending ssh passwords (especially server root logins) to a third party.
These downsides are for you to weigh up, but if you have no other way to access SSH, this could be a very handy tool.
Let me know what scrapes this service has got you out of.