I would like to run a script on a device that I have established an SSH session into. However, the script is on my local Windows machine.
For my experiment, I have:
A python script on my local machine (Windows)
A jailbroken iOS device that I can SSH into using putty
I want to run the python script, that's located on my windows machine, on my jailbroken device.
Is this possible?
I know on a Mac, you can actually use the terminal to do just that and it would look something like this.
python [pythonfile].py [parameters] [target device]
The reason why I can't just run the python script on my device is because I can't install python on that device (at least it isn't on Cydia). Plus, I don't want to pay for an app that executes it.
Let me know if you have any suggestions, thanks.
Have you tried this libssh2-for-iOS. Its an open source library which does exactly the same thing you are looking for.
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I am working on a hardware device running OpenWrt. I was wondering if I can manage my hardware and run shell scripts etc. remotely using OpenWisp2. Is it possible? If yes, then how to do that?
Not at the moment I'm writing.
You can only send configuration files, which can include scripts that can be also added to the crontab.
Sending commands will be possible once this branch is merged: https://github.com/openwisp/openwisp-controller/pull/31
Is it possible for this setting to work?
1) Ubuntu 14 with Jenkins, Genymotion, and Virtual Box installed
2) The job inside Jenkins will restore and run Genymotion from a command line following this tutorial: http://blog.genymobile.com/genymotion-jenkins-android-testing/
From my Mac, I tried to access the Jenkins website and run the build.
Firstly, Genymotion failed because it couldn't "connect to X server".
So, I installed Xvnc Plugin on Jenkins which solved the error.
Unfortunately, Genymotion still failed to start up with the error "Cannot get IP address".
Please note that I only have "ssh -X" access to the server.
I can manually start up Genymotion but the process was terminated when I logged off. As a result, I could not leave the GenyMotion run on the Server as suggested by this solution: Jenkins - Use Genymotion VM instead of Android Emulator
Any advice?
Here is the way to make Genymotion works on a continuous integration server.
First, the computer running Genymotion needs to respect the hardware requirements
You won't be able to run Genymotion if you don't have an X server running.
I don't think xVNC supports OpenGL so I advise you to run your standard X server.
You can launch the Xorg server by running startx.
Then you need to set your ssh connection in Jenkins without the -X parameter because we want the rendering to be done locally
Then you need to declare the environement variable DISPLAY to the default X client's value. Most of the time it is :0
This value will ask to open all the windows you launch through the ssh connexion into the first X client. It is the one running on the computer screen.
To check the DISPLAY value you need to enter, you need to access the computer physically and type echo $DISPLAY. Most of the time this value is :0
Also, if your computer is not compatible with the hardware requirements, you can use another computer on your network to run your tests thanks to the Jenkins nodes. Here is a good tutorial to set it up.
And finally, I want to mention we will soon release a command line tool for Genymotion and a Gradle Plugin that will allows you to control your Genymotion devices running during your tests directly from your build.gradle file.
It`s a bit late, but maybe this could help you out
### Get IP address of selected VM
VM_IP=`VBoxManage guestproperty get $VM_SELECTED androvm_ip_management | awk - F ": " '{print $2}'`
I found this here (repo) respectively here (slides)
I am trying to install an app to a jailbroken iPhone from PC via USB (using AFC2), for personal research. The app is actually an installer, so it has no UI.
My biggest 2 problems are: I don't know any API to run a command via an USB services, to run the binary after copying.
Then, I installed a LaunchDaemon plist to start my installer, but it seems that the binary is copied with no execution rights (maybe a limitation in AFC2), so the launch daemon fails.
So now I am stucked. Do you have any ideeas?
UPDATE
Thanks to creker I made some steps into achieving my goal. He provided me with several solutions, but I chosen the automatically install DEB via Cydia, since it looks the most simple and elegant method of all.
Nevertheless, I hit some bumps with this method also:
now I am able to succesfully install the .deb file via Cydia; I load the app and a launch daemon in the deb, but the launch daemon is unable to start the app, since installd fails to validate the app, which was fake-signed with ldid (I thought ldid signing is sufficient for running in jailbroken environment); so I guess either I sign it for real or I use a tweak like AppSync, to bypass validation
I also tried the following formula: a launch daemon to launch a bash script, which then starts the app, since I saw that cydia and OpenSSH registers some launch daemons like that, but my script / launch daemon is ignored, so I presume there should be a trick somewhere. Am I missing something here?
Do you have a WiFi? If not, you can use USB tunneling. Then you can SCP your app on a device and install it with SSH (give it persmissions you need and then launch). That's enough for testing. Or you can pack it into debian package with postinst script that will do all the installation. Debian packages can be installed manually through ssh and deb -i command. Or you can copy it into /var/root/Media/Cydia/AutoInstall and it will be installed automatically on device boot.
As for root:wheel, you can do this in your postinst script. The script by default is executed with root permissions. Just set all necessary permissions in it for all your files. If it's a daemon, you can even manually add it to launchd and launch immediatelly.
For Android there is ADB (Android debug bridge) which allows to get a shell on the connected device:
adb shell
Is there something similar for iOS?
I'd like to type some shell commands on my Mac that would be executed on the connected iPhone.
Is there a built-in Terminal on iPhone?
There isn't anything for it built in, but if you are jailbroken or can sideload apps (a.k.a., you have a mac with XCode), you can run a local terminal with apps like MobileTerminal, which aren't available on the app store.
To access a shell from a computer, if you are jailbroken (and possibly even if you aren't, if you can sideload apps) you can install openssh or openssh-server from Cydia (I believe it is just called "OpenSSH" in the GUI). Once that is running on your device, you can connect the device over USB and use this shell script I made called idb to access a shell, push and pull files, and so on. This sets up a USB link to relay TCP packets from the SSH server on the device, and then 'wraps' around SSH and SCP to perform the required tasks.
You'll have to compile a program to make it work called iproxy; this program relays TCP over the USB bus to allow ssh over a cable. The comments in the script I wrote explain how to do this (sorry... I plan to move it into README.md eventually).
The program follows most of the syntax of adb and implements some of the more commonly used operations of it.
Without jailbreaking, your options are more limited, but it may be possible to do something. I haven't tried since I don't regularly use iOS anymore.
use ssh through network (e.g. Wi-Fi), and iphone/ipad need download and enable ssh service, firstly.
Frequenlty my work involves to VNC to a remote system and work on it. SInce i run command line apps on this remote system most of the time, i was wondering if there's an alternative software to command prompt which i could install on my local machine. Using this i should be able to create a session with the remote system and from then on all commands issued in command prompt should run in remote system.
localHost>dir --> should list the directory contents in remotehost active directory
localhost>app.exe should run app.exe in remote host and display its contents in localhost command prompt
I browsed a little and read about cmdlets in powershell. But it looks like i need to write a cmdlet for each app in the path (dir, mkdir, app.exe in the path). Correct me if am wrong. Once session is established, i simply need the commands invoked in local host to be run in the remote host and return the console output to local host. Please let me know if powershell + cmdlets are the only way
THanks
Just use PowerShell Remoting if it can be set up (requires a little preparation).
I'm not quite sure why you think of writing own cmdlets for stuff that's already there. dir is an alias to Get-ChildItem which does return the items in the current path (and—depending on options—some other stuff as well). And since PowerShell is a shell it has no problems running external programs too.
SSH is what you're looking for. Cygwin has a SSH server and client.
Unix people do this all the time with SSH. You can install the sshd server on your remote machine through Cygwin, then use PuTTY to connect to it.
As a bonus, PuTTY does not use the clunky Windows cmd.exe program; it's got a much nicer terminal of its own.
You could maybe even run PowerShell on the remote end, so you don't have to learn bash.
Depending upon on how you actuall access the machines PSExec may be an alternative that wont require you to install anything on the remote system.