Tunnelling - rathole client

- get rathole

wget -O $HOME/suda-git/rathole-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.zip https://github.com/rapiz1/rathole/releases/download/v0.4.7/rathole-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.zip

- make a directory for rathole

mkdir $HOME/rathole

- unzip the archive into that directory

unzip -q $HOME/suda-git/rathole-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.zip -d $HOME/rathole

- make the binary executable

sudo chmod +x $HOME/rathole/rathole

- move the binary to /usr/bin/ so it's accessible

sudo mv $HOME/rathole/rathole /usr/bin/

- make a directory that will hold the rathole configuration

sudo mkdir -p /etc/rathole

- copy configuration files to /etc/rathole

sudo cp $HOME/suda-git/config/app1c.toml /etc/ratholerathole/app1.toml

sudo cp $HOME/suda-git/config/app2c.toml /etc/ratholerathole/app2.toml

sudo cp $HOME/suda-git/config/app3c.toml /etc/ratholerathole/app3.toml

- copy systemd service files to /etc/systemd/system

sudo cp $HOME/suda-git/config/ratholec@.service /etc/systemd/system/

- define $secret (needs to be the same string as on the server install)

 

secret="the_string_from_the_server(witout_quotes)"

 

- use sed to replace "hackme" with the secret string in the config files

sudo sed -i "s/hackme/$secret/g" /etc/rathole/app1c.toml

sudo sed -i "s/hackme/$secret/g" /etc/rathole/app2c.toml

sudo sed -i "s/hackme/$secret/g" /etc/rathole/app3c.toml

- app1c - noVNC service running on the client machine on port 443

- app2c - icecast streaming service running on the client machine on port 8443

- app3c - icecast admin backing service running on the client on port 8080

- enable these services

sudo systemctl enable ratholec@app1 --now

sudo systemctl enable ratholec@app2 --now

sudo systemctl enable ratholec@app3 --now