How to display Linux shell in a web page?

I have a website hosted on Apache server on my Red Hat machine. I want the users of the website to access the Red Hat's Shell using that website. I want the users to use to all the shell commands through the website.
How can I do that?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!

there is a firessh extension to firefox. Is this what you are looking for?

No, I need a solution which is not browser specific.

Originally Posted by amit_1 I have a website hosted on Apache server on my Red Hat machine.

If that is that the same remote machine running RHEL 5.6 you mentioned here then you should first know that this machine is already behind the times. Current is RHEL 5u8.

Originally Posted by amit_1 I want the users of the website to access the Red Hat's Shell using that website.

Why would you want to do that?
How will you ensure the server can not be (ab)used for malicious activity?
Please explain and be verbose.

Originally Posted by amit_1 I want the users to use to all the shell commands through the website.

You want to give any anonymous user of the web site access to all shell commands?
Do you have any idea what trouble you are in for?
Until you have explained what you want to do and how you will secure the server I suggest you
ignore replies that blithely give you solutions without questioning.

You could use Ajaxterm http://antony.lesuisse.org/software/ajaxterm/

But I advice you to secure everything very well first

hi amit_1 ,

it could be shell_exec you're looking for ?
But you need to secure (https at least) all the execution to that website.

Originally Posted by lithos you need to secure (https at least) all the execution to that website.

Could you please explain how using HTTPS negates security issues caused by the OP allowing all users to execute all commands on his server?

that will go thru by a given user id I think and this user will have a restricted shell: http://linux1.ca/downloads/restricted_env.txt. https will protect only the line.

Originally Posted by unSpawn Could you please explain how using HTTPS negates security issues caused by the OP allowing all users to execute all commands on his server?

No, I didn't mean to negate or anything like that just pointing in some of the security measurements to take.
Of course there is a lot more need to do,

so please

Originally Posted by unSpawn ignore replies that blithely give you solutions without questioning.

Thank you

The OP's past actions should spell "has just enough knowledge to be dangerous" to any of you.
Not asking what the OP really wants to do, replying without knowing it and none of you wondering about the security implications until my cue.
That's worrying.

Now let's see what the OP has to say for himself.

Originally Posted by unSpawn If that is that the same remote machine running RHEL 5.6 you mentioned here then you should first know that this machine is already behind the times. Current is RHEL 5u8.

Yes, this is the same machine There are newer versions of RHEL available, but for time being i will be using the same version. May be in future i will move to newer version.

Originally Posted by unSpawn You want to give any anonymous user of the web site access to all shell commands? Do you have any idea what trouble you are in for? Until you have explained what you want to do and how you will secure the server I suggest you ignore replies that blithely give you solutions without questioning.

The website is going to be password protected. So, only authorized users will have access to the website.

Also the website is hosted on a server which is a part of a Local Area Network and so, it cannot be accessed over internet.


Users have an option to access RHEL 5.6 system using SSH but i want to give them an alternative to access the system through a web-based Shell.

This is why i want to display linux shell on my webpage...

Originally Posted by amit_1 The website is going to be password protected. So, only authorized users will have access to the website. Also the website is hosted on a server which is a part of a Local Area Network and so, it cannot be accessed over internet.

Password protection itself mean nothing as we don't know what basis you authorize users on. LAN limits access better but a server not being accessible from the Internet doesn't necessarily mean users can't download stuff. Regardless of all of that you best not give any users access to potentially dangerous commands or allow them Sudo access. (My shell suggestion would be shellinabox BTW.)

Thanks unSpawn. Yes, I will make sure not to allow sudo/root access.