cursedboard

Ncurse based textboard for ssh.

ssh whisper.onthewifi.com

• Shitpost in style with markup
• Browse with arrow keys and vim style commands
• Sqlite3 backend scaling to the moon and beyond
• Countryball Countryletter posting
• File Browser, Image and Text Viewer for the full multimedia experience
• Customize your experience automatically via ssh_config
• Fuelled by npyscreen

User settings with ~/ssh_config

   Match User bit Host whisper.onthewifi.com
       RemoteCommand jump_to_bottom=True
       RequestTTY force

Currently available settings:

• jump_to_bottom Automaticall scroll to bottom of thread

This config is incompatible with sftp. To connect with sftp use '-F /dev/null'

SFTP Integration

Cursedboard brings its own custom configured sftp server to allow uploading files.

1. Create /var/sftp/ and copy sftp-server.pl and make it executable.
2. Install libnet-sftp-sftpserver-perl and libbsd-resource-perl
3. Assuming the user 'chan' write in your config.py

SFTP_INTEGRATION = True
SFTP_ROOT_DIR = "/var/sftp/files/chan/"

3. Adjust the paths in selector.sh to your locations
4. Point your users 'chan' /etc/passwd entry to selector.sh.

Countryballs

A GeoLite IP Database needs to be supplied via the MAXMIND_DATABASE config key, otherwise it can be left empty.

Setup

Needs python3, npyscreen and maxminddb. Use pip3 install -r requirements.txt or packages provided by your distribution

1. Run git submodule init and git submodule update to get img2txt
2. Install dependencies
3. Change motd.py to your likening
4. Create a dedicated unix user
5. Copy config.py-sample to config.py and adjust settings
6. Touch .hushlogin in the user directory to avoid an IP leak
7. Disable TCP Forwarding for the user in sshd_config
8. Disable the sftp Subsystem or make sure its not set to internal-sftp in sshd_config
9. ???
10. Comfy Posting