@wardmundy one could also add
SSH + root == Basically insecure without lots of other steps taken
FreePBX + asterisk == Insecure without lots of other steps taken
FreePBX + SSH + root = Probably a bad thing.
But, you can easily install gateone, an embeddable html5 multi sessionn ssh client and more with all it’s security measures it is a Tornado server that could be relatively easily embedded into FreePBX or any other web page for those that like “One Stop shopping” or don’t have a readily available ssh client on their (name your html5 compliant device here)
So I agree with James and with you, a hook to embed any useful page much like the rss feeds would be nice but giving general access to anyone to do anything that
CLI>!whoami
could do could be a catastrophe.
I personally have edited the link for the top left frog logo in “advanced settings” > “Styling and logos” to reflect my estandalone server specifically:-
Image: Left Upper to http://liftoff.github.io/GateOne/_static/ls_logo_1inch_300dpi.png
and
Link for Left Logo to https://yourgateoneserver:yourport
EDIT:
For the inquisitive
with a couple of rpm/apt-get installs it should be installed, a couple of commands/edits later (from the http://liftoffsoftware.com/Products/GateOne) and it will be running, it is as simple as that, I suggest you spend five minutes checking it out, if it is too much for you or scares you with it’s supercow powers then a couple of rpm/apt-get removes and it will be gone, no harm no foul. And of course that service can be run from any machine in your infrastructure if you are tentative about adding it to your FreePBX machine.
As a long term user of terminator, I find it to be an almost flawless and value added repacement