distant

Binary to connect with a remote machine to edit files and run programs.

🚧 (Alpha stage software) This program is in rapid development and may break or change frequently! 🚧

Details

The distant binary supplies both a server and client component as well as a command to start a server and configure the local client to be able to talk to the server.

• Asynchronous in nature, powered by tokio
• Data is serialized to send across the wire via CBOR
• Encryption & authentication are handled via orion
  • XChaCha20Poly1305 for an authenticated encryption scheme
  • BLAKE2b-256 in keyed mode for a second authentication
  • Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman (ECDH) for key exchange

Installation

Prebuilt Binaries

If you would like a pre-built binary, check out the releases section.

Building from Source

If you have cargo installed, you can directly download and build the source via:

cargo install distant

Alternatively, you can clone this repository and build from source following the build guide.

Examples

Launch a remote instance of distant by SSHing into another machine and starting the distant executable:

# Connects to my.example.com on port 22 via SSH to start a new session
distant launch my.example.com

# After the session is established, you can perform different operations
# on the remote machine via `distant action {command} [args]`
distant action copy path/to/file new/path/to/file
distant action run -- echo 'Hello, this is from the other side'

License

This project is licensed under either of

Apache License, Version 2.0, (LICENSE-APACHE or apache-license) MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or mit-license) at your option.