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Re:A native graphical shell for SSH by mrcslws on Monday June 29, 2026 @07:11PM (#48726545)
If you can SSH to a machine, you can use Outer Loop and Outer Shell, without having to do any sudo commands or expose anything new to the network. The browser + SSH client combined into a single app leads to nice user experiences like this. The final section of the post was saying that it's strange such a thing doesn't exist already.

FYI I made the same ActiveX connection here in the closing of the FAQ in the previous blog post about this native platform: https://probablymarcus.com/blocks/2026/05/10/like-a-web-view... I'm particularly proud of that paragraph.

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Re:A native graphical shell for SSH by wasmperson on Monday June 29, 2026 @08:05PM (#48726962)
> without having to do any sudo commands or expose anything new to the network.

Again I'm not understanding the distinction. I don't need to run sudo commands to install a web server, and depending on your definition of "exposing something new" to the network then either I don't have to do that either or your solution also does that.

Something is getting downloaded and run on the remote machine, correct? Why is it problematic for that something to be a web server (with SSH-forwarding I guess) instead of this custom thing?

And why install anything on the server at all if it'll just serve a binary that downloads and runs on your local computer anyway? For example, if I type `sftp://[email protected]/file/path` into my file manager's address bar, I get the nice file browsing experience you demonstrate without installing anything on my computer or the server.

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Re:A native graphical shell for SSH by ranger_danger on Monday June 29, 2026 @09:07PM (#48727404)
> it requires exposing a port to the internet or using some SSH port forwarding tool

I think what they meant is that the SSH server can be behind your webserver and not have to have its own public IP exposed directly... but of course there are an abundance of proxy-related solutions already.

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