shellinabox VS TorBox

Compare shellinabox vs TorBox and see what are their differences.

shellinabox

Official-ish Fork of Shell In A Box (by shellinabox)

TorBox

TorBox is an easy to use, anonymizing router based on Raspberry Pi, which also runs on Debian and Ubuntu based systems. (by radio24)
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shellinabox TorBox
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2,781 239
1.0% -
0.0 8.8
about 1 year ago 12 days ago
C Shell
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
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shellinabox

Posts with mentions or reviews of shellinabox. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-13.
  • ttyd - Share your terminal over the web
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Mar 2023
    Is it an alternative to shellinabox ?

    https://github.com/shellinabox/shellinabox

  • Can I access any vps service terminals via browser?
    5 projects | /r/selfhosted | 3 Jul 2022
  • Share your greatest free tools
    64 projects | /r/sysadmin | 17 Apr 2022
    Shell In A Box (though it hasn't been updated in a few years)
  • Linux administration tools on the browser
    1 project | /r/selfhosted | 21 Nov 2021
    Remind me of ShellInABox, but Apache Guacamole is probably much better supported.
  • TorBox v.0.4.1 released — easier than ever
    2 projects | /r/TOR | 18 Jun 2021
    From the GitHub community, nyxnor did an amazing work to rewrite the support of bridges with pluggable transports (OBFS4, MEEK-AZURE and SNOWFLAKE) to make it easier than ever to circumvent censorship. Also, we experimentally added „Shellinabox“ so that user, who are not familiar with SSH can also access the TorBox Main menu with a web browser. However, we are not completely satisfied with that solution yet because browsers are showing warning messages with the self-signed certificate for a secure connection. We are eager to hear your feedback on “Shellinabox”. Do you know better alternatives? For more details about the latest TorBox Version, check out our Blog Post.
  • What terminal emulator do you use?
    13 projects | /r/linuxquestions | 12 Apr 2021
    shellinabox — A web-based SSH Terminal https://github.com/shellinabox/shellinabox
  • Possible To Use Nomachine On Port 3389
    1 project | /r/NoMachine | 2 Mar 2021
    It's also possible ports 80/443 are also available to your Windows machine. In which case you might use your NoMachine service to listen on that port. If the firewall is not permissive enough, you can use something like shellinabox to HTTP into the Windows machine and perform administration tasks to disable RDP/endable NoMachine on port 3389.
  • How do I make a MUD ?
    2 projects | /r/MUD | 13 Jan 2021
    It looks like Telehack is running a Javascript + CSS kit called ShellInABox to allow web browsers to connect via Telnet. The link they provided in the "about" leads to a malfunctioning webpage, looks to be last updated in 2010. However, that project was forked on GitHub, and the most recent update appears to be Jan 2019, so there is a likely-working copy of that software for allowing for that kind of access.

TorBox

Posts with mentions or reviews of TorBox. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-06-18.
  • TorBox v.0.4.2 released — hardening
    1 project | /r/TOR | 9 Aug 2021
    Also, we are exploring the possibility to create a Raspberry Pi USB TOR-stick with a Raspberry Pi Zero W (see here). This is probably, what you are looking for. However, we are not there yet.
    1 project | /r/u_radio_28 | 8 Aug 2021
    TorBox is an easy to use, anonymising router based on a Raspberry Pi. We released TorBox v. 0.4.2. The core changes in TorBox v.0.4.2 is about hardening it (see also our discussion here). Our goal is to offer users a safer way to install and use TorBox. Again, nyxnor from the GitHub community pushed us hard in the right direction.
  • TorBox v.0.4.1 released — easier than ever
    2 projects | /r/TOR | 18 Jun 2021
    From the GitHub community, nyxnor did an amazing work to rewrite the support of bridges with pluggable transports (OBFS4, MEEK-AZURE and SNOWFLAKE) to make it easier than ever to circumvent censorship. Also, we experimentally added „Shellinabox“ so that user, who are not familiar with SSH can also access the TorBox Main menu with a web browser. However, we are not completely satisfied with that solution yet because browsers are showing warning messages with the self-signed certificate for a secure connection. We are eager to hear your feedback on “Shellinabox”. Do you know better alternatives? For more details about the latest TorBox Version, check out our Blog Post.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing shellinabox and TorBox you can also consider the following projects:

scrcpy - Display and control your Android device

tmux - tmux source code

Sshwifty - Web SSH & Telnet (WebSSH & WebTelnet client) 🔮

Eterm - Eterm terminal emulator

tilix - A tiling terminal emulator for Linux using GTK+ 3

cool-retro-term - A good looking terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display...

zutty - X terminal emulator rendering through OpenGL ES Compute Shaders

terminal - :rocket: Terminal

kitty - Cross-platform, fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal

alacritty - A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator. [Moved to: https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty]

LibreNMS - Community-based GPL-licensed network monitoring system