[Feature Request] custom local shell (CMD + PS prevented from executing by App Control policy)

[rogierg]

Hi there,

Great tool, I use it to connect to my selfhosted services through SSH. Thanks!

When starting XPipe I get multiple shell self test errors. This happens both for CMD and PS. I can get XPipe to start by trying fallback multiple times but it is annoying.

Stack trace:

java.lang.IllegalStateException: Shell self-test failed for cmd:
Expected output "test", got output "" when running test script

This indicates that something is seriously wrong and certain shell functionality will not work as expected. Some features like the terminal launcher have to create shell scripts for your external terminal emulator to launch.

XPipe will now attempt to fall back to another shell.

at io.xpipe.app.core.check.AppShellChecker.check(AppShellChecker.java:40)
at io.xpipe.app.core.check.AppShellCheck.check(AppShellCheck.java:65)
at io.xpipe.app.core.mode.AppBaseMode.lambda$onSwitchTo$0(AppBaseMode.java:101)
at io.xpipe.app.util.ThreadHelper.lambda$load$0(ThreadHelper.java:78)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1474)

When it has started I can use the connections as normal. (Without using scripting of course) Diving deeper it turns out that both CMD and PS are prevented from executing by App Control policy, which I cannot turn off.

Would it be possible to set a custom local shell, or completely disable local scripting?

[crschnick]

This warning could be omitted somehow so it doesn't bother anyone. I can look into that.

But it works even with that block? I would have expected it to not work in that case, at least something like a terminal open should not work properly. As that creates local scripts to be launched by the shell in the terminal to start up.

About setting a custom shell, that is not possible as it either needs cmd or PowerShell on Windows. At least to launch a shell in a terminal

[rogierg]

@crschnick shells indeed don't work but tunnels and services do. (As does RDP) I do think setting a custom shell (like what we have in terminal emulator) might help in figuring out if we can bypass this restriction.

[crschnick]

I will look into this and set this block up myself on a test system to see what is possible.

If you are on Windows with a WSL install, you can try running XPipe in the WSL environment itself: https://docs.xpipe.io/guide/installation#wsl. Not perfect as you then can only use the Linux tools, but better than nothing for now if you have to use that device.