ssh-telegram-manager 0.6.0

Python app to launch sshd server from Telegram

SSH Telegram Manager

SSH Telegram Manager is a Telegram bot to launch ssh on demand. With this tool, you can avoid to expose your ssh port permanently on Internet.

Installation

Gentoo

If you use Gentoo, you can find the ebuild in https://github.com/turulomio/myportage/tree/master/app-admin/ssh_telegram_manager

• Get your Telegram Bot token. This is a way to get it https://www.siteguarding.com/en/how-to-get-telegram-bot-api-token
• Copy /etc/ssh_telegram_manager/ssh_telegram_manager.default to your /etc/ssh_telegram_manager/ssh_telegram_manager and edit your settings.
• Just run ssh_telegram_manager. You can use /etc/init.d/ssh_telegram_manager to launch daemon or rc-update add ssh_telegram_manager to launch it on server start up
• When ssh_telegram_manager is working fine, disable sshd daemon from start with rc-update del sshd to hide your ssh port on Internet
• You must use \ssh_start to launch ssh on your Telegram Bot. After 1 minute(you can change in settings) it will be closed.

Debian

If you use Debian, you can use pip pip install ssh_telegram_manager

• Get your Telegram Bot token. This is a way to get it https://www.siteguarding.com/en/how-to-get-telegram-bot-api-token
• Copy https://github.com/turulomio/ssh_telegram_manager/blob/main/etc/ssh_telegram_manager/ssh_telegram_manager.default to your /etc/ssh_telegram_manager/ssh_telegram_manager
• Edit this file to set systemctl start ssh and systemctl stop ssh as your start and stop command
• Copy https://github.com/turulomio/ssh_telegram_manager/blob/main/etc/systemd/debian/ssh_telegram_manager.service to your /lib/systemd/system/ directory
• Just run ssh_telegram_manager. You can launch daemon with systemctl start ssh_telegram_manager. You can launch it on server start with systemctl enable ssh_telegram_manager
• When ssh_telegram_manager is working fine, disable ssh daemon from start with systemctl disable ssh to hide your ssh port on Internet
• You must use \ssh_start to launch ssh on your Telegram Bot. After 1 minute(you can change in settings) it will be closed.

Changelog

0.6.0

• Migrated setup.py to pyproject.toml with poetry.

0.5.0

• Upgraded code to python-telegram-bot-20.0 api

0.4.0 (2022-10-22)

• Fixed bug when system time is not set correctly
• Added ssh_telegram_manager.service for systemd systems
• Improved spanish translation

0.3.0 (2022-08-17)

• Now waits for Internet before connecting to Telegram to avoid errors

0.1.1 (2022-08-13)

• Basic functionality