webterm-server

A simple no-frills webterm server.

Usage: webterm-server [OPTIONS] [COMMAND] [ARGS]...

Arguments:
  [COMMAND]  The command to execute [default: webterm-login]
  [ARGS]...  Arguments for the command

Options:
  -v, --verbose...       Print more messages
  -q, --quiet...         Print less messages
  -l, --listen <LISTEN>  The address to bind to [default: localhost:8080]
  -h, --help             Print help

Customizing login behaviour

No login required

You can have the webterm server spawn a shell without requiring the user to login. Simply adjust the command line arguments:

webterm-server -- /usr/bin/zsh -l

Require password of a specific user

You can also have the webterm server start su -l MYUSER. The su program will ask for a password before starting a login shell for MYUSER.

webterm-server -- /usr/bin/su -l MYUSER

Password login for any user

You could try to use the /sbin/login program. However, the login program requires root permissions to function on many systems.

You can mimic the behaviour of login with a small shell script:

#!/bin/sh
read -p "Username: " -r username
exec su -l "$username"

This script is included in the repository as webterm-login. You can install it somewhere and have the webterm server run it for new sessions:

webterm-server -- /usr/local/bin/webterm-login