SHIM

Shim allows a selected Yahoo IM friend to access shell commands on
your computer through their Instant Messenger client. Once connected,
both you and your friend may type commands and see the results of
those commands.   

This project is useful, for example, when your friend is behind a
firewall and you are asked to fix their computer.  You simply have
your friend download this program and from a command line,  they run
the client: 

shim [my yahoo_id] [friend's yahoo_id]  

They are prompted for their yahoo password, and then you will receive
a message on your IM  saying that they you have access to their
computer.  Now, you may type in commands (ls -al , ps -ef, mount, dir,
ipconfig, etc)
and both you and your friend will see results of your commands.  Also,
your friend may type in commands on the command line and they will be
executed and the results will be broadcast via IM to you. 

System requirements:Currently supports Linux and Windows
XP/NT/98. Fairly trivial to support more OS's. *NIX systems currently
require bash.  Java 1.4 and higher required on system.


Project homepage 

sourceforge project home

install shim  Latest version is 0.7 Released 12-17-2004

This project is maintined by Mike Cohen  Click here
to send an email if you have questions of comments.

Thanks to YMSG project for the Yahoo IM API!