SMS remote shell

morecowbell · 2009-09-10 22:55:05

I don't have one of those fancy phones with ssh or internet capabilities (that i feel like paying for), but i wanted to be able to control my computer remotely from my phone. My phone can text to an email address that my computer can access. So i made a bash script that searches through emails for special SMS commands.

#! /bin/bash

$(grep smscmd path/to/Inbox | tail -1 | cut -d\  -f 3-)

So if i emailed myself the text:

smscmd mplayer videos/*

It will execute that. Now my phone is a fancy remote

Right now i have it set up to run in a thunderbird filter that checks if it's from my phone before executing. Any security improvements to stop random people from accessing my shell would be appreciated. Or anything else

Varreon · 2009-09-11 00:52:00

I wrote the same program, but used python. I include a password within the first digits of the message. The script breaks off x digits from the beginning of the message, and will not parse the command unless the password matches.

Last edited by Varreon (2009-09-11 00:52:22)

sand_man · 2009-09-11 02:06:03

That's pretty cool. What kind of thing would you use it for though? pacman -Syu ?? lol

moljac024 · 2009-09-11 02:10:50

sand_man wrote:

That's pretty cool. What kind of thing would you use it for though? pacman -Syu ?? lol

rtorrent porn

morecowbell · 2009-09-11 02:27:34

haha. I'm not sure. What would be useful? Would it be worthwhile to make it reply with the stdout? then i could get information stored on my computer from anywhere. I don't really have anything I would want to access from my phone though.

Or i could get it to picture and video message me porn...

moljac024 · 2009-09-11 02:37:34

Or if someone else in your house uses the computer you can make it pop up porn while they're at it...they won't know what hit 'em

morecowbell · 2009-09-11 03:02:16

echo "She would still be alive now" | xmessage -center -file -

tomd123 · 2009-09-11 03:18:09

morecowbell wrote:

echo "She would still be alive now" | xmessage -center -file -

atordo · 2009-09-11 03:52:30

Also have a look at the "eject" command. Quite funny when the CD tray starts to open and close at its own will.

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