cmdpb

A simple private command-line pastebin that uses HTTP basic authentication and MySQL.

Get started

Server-side:

Edit the secrets at the beginning of cmdpb.php to provide login credentials and database configurations. Then copy cmdpb.php to your server (say to example.com/).

Client-side:

You can communicate with the pastebin using curl or using the shell script cmdpb (see below). There are two options to authenticate using curl:

• curl -n: which reads login credentials from your ~/.netrc. You can enter your login credentials to ~/.netrc like this:

  machine example.com login USERNAME password PASSWORD
  

• curl -u USERNAME:PASSWORD: by providing login credentials in each call.

Usage

Posting a new paste

• from a FILE:

  curl -n -F "c=@FILE" https://example.com/cmdpb.php
  

• From stdin:

  echo Hello world | curl -n -F "c=<-" https://example.com/cmdpb.php
  

• from a string:

  curl -n -F "c=Hello world" https://example.com/cmdpb.php
  

Getting all pastes:

curl -n https://example.com/cmdpb.php

Getting the paste with id=ID:

curl -n "https://example.com/cmdpb.php?id=ID"

Deleting the paste with id=ID:

curl -n -X DELETE "https://example.com/cmdpb.php?id=ID"

Updating the paste with id=ID:

curl -n -F "c=Hello world" "https://example.com/cmdpb.php?id=ID"
curl -n -F "c=@file" "https://example.com/cmdpb.php?id=ID"
echo Hello world | curl -n -F "c=<-" "https://example.com/cmdpb.php?id=ID"

Shell script

A shell script cmdpb is also provided. To start using it, download it, make it executable and edit it to make the variable URL points to your cmdpb.php.

Examples of use:

cmdpb                         # post from what you write
cmdpb file                    # post from file
echo hello world | cmdpb      # post from stdin
cmdpb -a                      # show all pastes
cmdpb -s ID                   # show paste with id=ID
cmdpb -d ID                   # delete paste with id=ID
cmdpb -u ID                   # update paste with id=ID

Security

By default, the pastebin works only with secure connections (https). If you wish to run it locally or on a completely secure network, you can comment out the line:

if (!isSecure()){echo "please use https\n"; exit; }