Support running without a daemon and without privileged code

[dequeued0]

It would be great if et automatically started the network server as a user from ssh (basically, like what mosh does) rather than using a daemon running as root.

[gklanderman]

would be nice if ET worked more like mosh, as then I could use/more easily adapt the mosh client/server wrappers my company has to make mosh work on their network.

on top of not requiring a root daemon

[mahnerak]

I suppose having a separate portable client (running without root access) should be even easier to accomplish, and (arguably) more valuable.

[MisterTea]

You can run et without root. Check the GitHub actions (continuous integration) to see examples.

[gklanderman]

Hi @MisterTea, can you point out the change that closes this issue? I browsed at least a year back (further than I last installed from trunk when I was using ET at my previous employer), and didn't see any significant change to how ET works on the server side, and see that systemctl/et_service and various other system service startup files still exist.

The point of this issue was to get rid of etserver, or at least have it run as a regular user, much like mosh works, so that you do not need root on the server machine in order to be able to install/upgrade ET.

Or point to a specific GitHub action? There are 35 pages of them...

[MisterTea]

Here's examples of etserver running as a regular user: https://github.com/MisterTea/EternalTerminal/blob/master/.circleci/config.yml

[MisterTea]

The examples use sudo but I don't think it's necessary as long as you change the ET port to be more than 4096 (unix rule). Please correct me if I'm wrong.