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by angerson 1y ago
This is a nice write-up. I recently added post-to-bluesky support to my ongoing social-media-scheduler project [1], thinking it would be the simplest of the services to work on, but I ended up getting really confused instead. DID and handle
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by angerson 8y ago
Yeah, sorry for the inconvenience. We added a registration requirement to prevent anyone from abusing the free trial so easily, although it would have been a nice idea to have a demo available.
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by angerson 8y ago
Thank you for saying so. We've put a lot of work into just getting to this state, and next for us comes a lot more work on both features and security, like you said. Our focus right now is on independent users who are looking for conve
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by angerson 8y ago
Thanks a lot for your advice and kindness. We've been hesitant to overuse industry credentials (I work at Google) because I personally look for documentation quality over goodness-by-association, but I agree that we haven't done e
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by angerson 8y ago
Many other commenters have expressed similar misgivings, but I'll respond to this top-rated one so that I don't pollute the thread. First, thanks for your brutality. It's good to know that a service like this (which deals wit
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by angerson 8y ago
For 1, we're going to look into it (or something like it). It sounds like the service could be improved a lot if we could implement end-to-end encryption without the MitM dangers. For 2, those kinds of products already exist, and we&#x
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by angerson 8y ago
The big one is convenience: if you need to do some quick maintenance from a computer you're not usually using, it's fast and easy to do so here (e.g. if you want to administer your server from a firewalled work PC, or from your pa
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by angerson 8y ago
Ahh, now I understand. That's worth looking into, thanks!
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by angerson 8y ago
Oh, so by "terminate the connection in the browser", you mean the service would connect via SSH to a server, start a separate socket server connected to a terminal, and then hand off the connection entirely to the browser? If not,
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by angerson 8y ago
Our goal is to provide a useful service for anyone who wants to be able to log in from anywhere, which does unfortunately mean we're stuck as a potential MitM. We wrote a lot of documentation about how to mitigate the security issues [
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by angerson 8y ago
Theoretically, yes (see our FAQ [1]), which is why we encourage careful usage. We don't log commands or usage. We actually looked at a browser-only implementation first. Sadly, there's a limitation on JS SSH: in-browser Javascript
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by angerson 8y ago
Thanks for the feedback! This is something we've had in mind for a while, and we're hoping to get to work on enterprise support (including other features like key sharing between team users and usage auditing) after solidifying th
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by angerson 8y ago
Yikes, that's a typo on the homepage. It'll be fixed in a few minutes once Cloudfront updates, thanks!
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by angerson 8y ago
Right, Shellvault isn't for everyone: we're aiming to provide a good service for anyone who wants more convenience than normal SSH can provide, and we've worked hard on transparently documenting security considerations and ad
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by angerson 8y ago
Shellvault was developed from scratch with Laravel and Vue.js (the terminal is XTerm.js [1]). One of our big design ideals while developing Shellvault was that setup should be just as easy as a standard SSH client, so there's nothing n
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by angerson 8y ago
That's right. That's one of the big security considerations we've had in mind from the start, so we've provided a lot of documentation and notices about what we do and don't track [1] and how to use Shellvault while
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by angerson 8y ago
Sure, what kind of enhancements do you have in mind? Mosh and regular SSH are both supported right now (you can choose which one to use on a per-server basis), but we haven't implemented any advanced toggles yet aside from setting the
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by angerson 8y ago
Hey HN! Shellvault is a project I've been working hard on for a few months now. It's a cloud service that allows you to SSH from the comfort of any browser similar to Chrome Secure Shell, but with many more features. Shellvault is
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