Gamma Web Shell 1.3

Installation Instructions

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Abstract
System Requirements
Features
Installation
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Abstract

Web Shell allows you to execute shell commands directly from your browser. It is useful if you don't have shell access to a server.

System Requirements

The Web Shell requirements are as follows:

Unix-based HTTP server.
Perl 5.0 or above.

Features

Gamma Web Shell has the following key features:

Easy installation and configuration.
Tracking of the current directory.
Browse mode with a directory listing.
Restricted mode with a custom set of commands.

Installing

To install the software you need to do the following steps:

Unpack the downloaded archive. It contains the WebShell directory with all the files.
You may need to change the path to the perl executable in the first line of the WebShell.cgi script. The default path is /usr/bin/perl.
Edit the configuration variables in WebShell.cgi. You should change the password and you may want to set up the restricted mode.
Upload the WebShell directory to your site cgi-bin directory or to any other directory where you can run cgi scripts.
Set executable permission to WebShell.cgi. You can do it by executing the chmod a+x WebShell.cgi from the shell or using your FTP client.
Open WebShell.cgi in your browser. Enter the password. Now you may execute shell commands and browse directories.

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