multiple users and 1-to-1 mapping ?

[wholeinsoul]

Is it possible for a single tty.js server to support multiple users with each user mapped to a unique linux user ? Currently it seems all the users access the same linux user's shell.

I have userZ running the tty.js server and two users userA, userB specified in config.json. But both userA and userB end up having the access to userZ's shell [whoami returns userZ for both userA and userB]. How can I map userA to linux userA's shell and userB to linux userB's shell ?

One solution I can think of is to specify a custom shell in config.json "shell" : "my_shell_script" that logins into the appropriate user shell.

Thank you

[chjj]

Not right now, but pty.js has the ability to set the uid and gid of the forked process. So, it is technically possible to map each browser user to a unix user if implemented right. I think this is a good idea and shouldn't be too difficult to implement. Will accept PRs.

That being said, you could also set the default shell to a unix login. That way users would just login using the terminal. I haven't tested it myself, but I've heard of people doing it.

[wholeinsoul]

Thank you. I was also thinking of the unix login shell approach.

[davicompu]

chjj I would like to know how to setup tty.js or the inside implementation of pty for the default unix login. I'm currently running tty.js project because of the express server.

[risacher]

FWIW, I had trouble getting tty.js to use the default unix login, so set my shell parameter to be a tiny script that I call 'ssh-localhost' which looks like this:

#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Login: ";      
my $username = <STDIN>;
chomp $username;        
$username =~ s/[^a-z]//g;
exec ("/usr/bin/ssh -e none $username\@localhost"); 

This allows me to use tty.js to login as any user on the local host where tty.js is running.