nkryuchkov / dmsgexec

Remote command execution over dmsg.

dmsgexec

dmsgexec allows remote execution of commands via dmsg.

Install

Golang

Ensure the latest version of Golang is installed. The project depends on go modules for dependency management. Detailed golang installation steps can be found here: https://github.com/SkycoinProject/skycoin/blob/develop/INSTALLATION.md

dmsgexec-server and dmsgexec

The following commands will install the binaries into $HOME/go/bin. You can change the destination folder by changing the value of the GOBIN env.

Ensure the path you set as GOBIN is part of your PATH env.

# clone repository
git clone https://github.com/SkycoinProject/dmsgexec.git

# cd into repo
cd dmsgexec

# install all binaries into $HOME/bin
GOBIN=$HOME/go/bin go install ./...

Run

dmsgexec is made up of two executables:

• dmsgexec-server is to be the service for dmsg exec.
• dmsgexec is the command line tool for interacting with dmsgexec-server.

The following instructions run dmsgexec-server with the default configurations.

For more advanced control, run dmsgexec-server --help or dmsgserver --help for additional arguments.

Generate your local keys:

$ dmsgexec keygen

Run dmsgexec-server:

$ dmsgexec-server

Add remote public keys to your whitelist:

Add trusted public keys to allow the associated remote dmsgexec-servers to execute commands on your local machine.

$ dmsgexec whitelist-add --pk <public-key>

Execuate a command on a remote machine:

$ dmsgexec --pk <public-key> --cmd "echo" --arg "hello world!"
$ dmsgexec --pk <public-key> --cmd "tree" --arg "-L" --arg "1"