Showing posts with label shell. Show all posts
Showing posts with label shell. Show all posts

Monday, January 15, 2018

wicd-curses curses wifi manager


A few locations discuss headless setup of the raspberry pi for bringing up such as the rpi zero W which can be made to boot up completely disconnected, due to the presence of wifi on the board.

However it would be nice to be able to add an additional Wifi net to connect to for such as when one wants to run the board on additional networks.

My use case is to have a pocket board which runs Linux and can tether if needed to a cell phone wifi for network access.

https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/11631/how-to-setup-multiple-wifi-networks

sudo apt-get install wicd-curses

will install a curses utility to manipulate the wifi connections.

Shell in a box on the raspberry pi

Raspian's Debian distribution repositories contain the shell in a box distribution.

sudo apt-get -y install shellinabox

will install the package.

access it via

https://<ip or name>:4200/

unless the port is configured to other port.  Since this is intended for remote management, the access to the demon is via encrypted https connection.  There are topics about  configuring this for non encrypted access, but one might as well do telnet if that is turned off.

Tagged with ssh as it is a similar access method if configured with encrypted shell access.

Here is a discussion:

http://sysmatt.blogspot.com/2014/11/manage-your-raspberry-pi-with-shell.html

good page on configuring shell in a box:  Local only, different port, etc.

https://www.tecmint.com/shell-in-a-box-a-web-based-ssh-terminal-to-access-remote-linux-servers/