Introduction

The SSH Console is a Mozilla extension that provides a shell-like terminal that can be used to connect to and interact with remote servers over SSH. The terminal provides VT100 terminal emulation, which also enables the use of remote shell commands such as man, less and Vi.

License

The SSH Console source code is licensed under the Mozilla Public License (MPL).

This source code includes a modified version of Frank Bi's VT100 JavaScript library (which itself is licensed under the LGPL).

Requirements

The extension requires the SFTP and SSH Mozilla extension, which itself, also requires the PythonExt extension (PyXPCOM).

Features

The terminal has quite limited functionality at present, here is a list of the higher priority items that could be added to the current SSH Console implementation in order to make it more functional:

• Scrolling
• Selection handling
• Copy and paste support
• Resizing ability
• Throughput performance
• Colors (ansi emulation)