HTTP Shutdown command

[tmacka88]

Ok so im using a universal remote "iRule" with iPad and I am to make a shutdown command button so I can turn off my NAS through this remote by pushing a button.

I know that you can shutdown freenas through the browser by typing IP http://192.168.2.141/system/shutdown/ but with a password on the system I have done this

so im an trying to put the above into a HTTP command to shutdown with password/user name.

I have tryed this

admin:my_password/system/shutdown/

http://admin:my_password@192.168.2.141/system/shutdown/

but nothing seems to work. The gateway is setup to the ip above so i dont think i need the IP in the command.


any ideas

thanks

 

[ProtoSD]

You won't be able to do it this way because when you login it's passed from a from and stored as a session in the FreeNAS database. I know there's a solution, but my brain is a bit foggy at the moment and it's not coming to me. Maybe William, one of the developers, will read this and offer a suggestion.

 

[tmacka88]

would be good to find a way that I can do this though.

 

[William Grzybowski]

It is impossible unless you implement some client library using cURL or something alike...

In 8.2 or 8.3 we will make an API available in JSON-RPC for such things, but you will still need a script/program.

Login through http://user:pass@ which is the so called Http Auth Basic is not enabled in freenas and probably never will due to security reasons...

 

[tmacka88]

How about with 8.2 plugins. Is there a plugin that would do the job.

 

[ProtoSD]

Plugins wouldn't really help much either because they're isolated inside the plugin jail with restricted privileges. What you could do IF your iRule supports SSH, would be to set up ssh keys and have the button send a shutdown command over ssh. If you really weren't worried about security, you could just allow root logins over ssh (without a password) and send the command that way. Probably for testing it would be easier to do the root login method until you get things working, then switch over to ssh keys. I just did a quick search and it looks like the iRule has the ability to use ssh, so that would be the way I'd go.

The command would look something like "ssh root@ip-address shutdown -p now"