babaee

a telegram bot for remote controlling a server

it is the system-admins's assistant telegram bot!

how to set up a babaee on your server

this is a pretty straightforward guide for setting up your own babaee robot.

1. clone this repository.
2. copy config.py.default into config.py.
3. configure config.py.
4. run robot with command python3 babaee.py.

more details on how to set up babaee

prerequisits

1. create a telegram bot and note the bot token. (here is how to do it)
2. clone this repository on the server

git clone 'https://github.com/ekm507/babaee.git'

3. copy config.py.default into config.py file.

   cp config.py.default config.py
   

edit the config.py file

there are two ways to run this robot.

1. by a non-root user
2. by root user.

when run by non-root user, commands will be run as your user.

when run by root user, you can define users for each person interacting with robot. you may also give users root access for running commands.

thus, the way you run the robot, you need to configure it differently.

configure for non-root user

edit config.py file.

1. edit robot_token

   in config.py file set robot token

   robot_token = "token you get from botfather"
   

2. edit admins_chat_id_list.

   add your chat_id (you can add several ones)

   as an example:

   # chat id of admins
   admins_chat_id_list = [
       12121212,
       13131313,
       # integer
   ]
   

3. edit forward_chat_id_list

   it is possible to send a log from users commands to a telegram user.

   for example:

   # a list of chat id. bot will forward all incoming messages to these users.
   forward_chat_id_list = [
       12121212,
       # integers
   ]
   

configure for root user

edit config.py file.

1. edit robot_token

   in config.py file set robot token

   robot_token = "token you get from botfather"
   

2. edit admins_chat_id_list.

   add your chat_id (you can add several ones)

   as an example:

   # chat id of admins
   admins_chat_id_list = [
       12121212,
       13131313,
       # integer
   ]
   

3. edit chatd_users dict.

   each chat_id must be assigned to a user on your machine.

   as an example:

   chatid_users = {
       12121212:'erfan',
       13131313:'funny-user'
       # integer:string
   }
   

4. edit sudoers_chatid list

   it is possible to give a user root access.

   for example if you want to let user 12121212 be able ro run commands as root:"

   sudoers_chatid = [
       12121212,
       #integer
   ]
   

5. edit forward_chat_id_list

   it is possible to send a log from users commands to a telegram user, for instance root user's telegram.

   for example:

   # a list of chat id. bot will forward all incoming messages to these users.
   forward_chat_id_list = [
       12121212,
       # integers
   ]
   

running the robot

run the bot using python3

python3 babaee.py

usage

to use the bot, simply type linux commands in it.
however there are some special commands you can use.

special commands

• /help : robot help
• /sh : run command in shell
• /sudo : run command as root in shell
• /send : send a file from server to telegram
• /receive : receive a file from telegram into server
• /edit : edit a file
• /ps : list of running processes
• /exec : execute a python command in robot

TODO

• show a list of running subprocesses with a killing ability. (temporary solution: linux ps command)
• make an interface for other apps to let them communicatie with admin via telegram.
• make better logs. (how should they be?)
• write a better help file
• make a cli for configuration
• split telegram interface from the main code into a different file. this way robot can be used for other platforms, also testing can be easier.