CTerm service on Dashboard. What is it?

Hello,

I found the new CTerm plugin in my Open Media Vault. A great idea. Where can I find instructions for setting it up? I can't find anything on the official OMV and OMV Extras websites. I found something through Google that says you have to set up users for it under System → CTerm. Unfortunately, there's no CTerm entry under System, and under Services → CTerm you can only enable and disable CTerm.

Thanks and regards

Mic.

Quote from ryecoaaron

It is short for Compose Exec Terminal (new feature in the Compose plugin). That was too long for the services status so I named it CTerm for short.

Thanks ryecoaaron is this a typical Terminal like the one we can SSH to OMV with user/root permissions or Compose-exclusive terminal? I am not familiar with this at all, hence my n00b question. Thank you.

Yes, it ins installed.

There is no group named "cterm":

Quote from macom

Go to users and add your user to the cterm group.

I use the standard user "admin" to login to the WebGUI and I use the standard user "root" to login via SSH. Both users are not listed in the users tab of OMV WebGUI. How should I continue here?

Quote from Mic2024

I use the standard user "admin" to login to the WebGUI and I use the standard user "root" to login via SSH. Both users are not listed in the users tab of OMV WebGUI. How should I continue here?

There is an another way. Login to OMV using SSH. Go to /etc directory and edit "group" file. Add user names to "cterm". I would use "macom" method though.

Like the name, and a very nice way of doing it. I do like how you can now access the shell from compose, kvm and the main interface both of all situations.

For users who were using the 'exec terminal' function in the compose plugin, I've just checked. Now to use compose and kvm plugin 'exec terminal' function, you only need to have 'cterm' group added to your user, the same as in the main 'CTerm' plugin.

You can remove the 'dockerterm' from your groups if you wish.

Quote from ryecoaaron

It is a system group. I didn't want people editing it in the OMV web interface. I will be listed in the list of groups when you edit your user in the omv web interface to add the user to the cterm group. No need to use the command line.

This is fine. But which user do I need to edit. In the WebGUI I just can see my manually created docker user and smb user. No system user is listed there.

Quote from ryecoaaron

Did you see the container term dashboard widget? It lists the containers with a link the terminal in a dashboard widget.

Yes, I could of worded that a little better, what I meant to get over was, that whatever you're working on whether in the docker or lxc tab, or just the host shell, you can use which ever you prefer, plus I like being able to jump straight into the container of choice when using compose or kvm.

I think it's very good, Personally I'd like to have the choice to auto login, but I understand why you've gone down the login route you have. As I use Bitwarden I prefer the login popup rather than the way WeTTY things. (Yes, as others have pointed out to me, I can auto login from WeTTY in a docker container, but I believe WeTTY on the Dashboard uses Podman, and I've not really looked to see where the config files are stored, if there are any config files.)

Personally I don't expect to use ssh that much going forward, unless the cli you've used can't do something that the debian cli can do.

A very nice addition to OMV all round!!