This makes me think about something I thought of a while back, is there any library/app which lets me expose a TUI/cli-app over ssh without actually caring about securing OpenSSH for this use case?
https://github.com/shazow/ssh-chat
https://github.com/zachlatta/sshtron
https://github.com/quackduck/devzat
https://github.com/donuts-are-good/shhhbb/
There's also a assembly library:
And for rust there's trush, and for python paramiko as mentioned.
> expose a TUI/cli-app over ssh without actually caring about securing OpenSSH
If you already have an app, see maybe:
https://drewdevault.com/2019/09/02/Interactive-SSH-programs....
Do you mean thrussh?
It looks like that hasn't been updated in 2 years. But there is an active fork of it called russh.
The "securing" part aside, ssh still gives you a whole terminal experience very similar to the telnet one & the ability to draw into it (like if you were using Emacs on the shell host).
You can set something like that up by forcing a command on ssh instead of a shell (like what github does for git).
Then again many programs aren’t secure against untrusted input either.
Go to http-something in your web browser which is a Guacamole install and log in to Guacamole as "guest" / "guest" then in guac the only connection option is some SSH login that'll appear in your web browser
As a warning people have tried to supply "nethack as-a-service" or whatever and people are really creative about gaining shell access somehow anyway, via buffer overflows or who knows what. You can do it, just be careful.
If you're actually willing to write the app.