Remote shell

Remote shell gives you command-line access to a Linux device from your browser. No SSH port forwarding, no VPN, and no inbound firewall changes.

Commands run with the Linux permissions of the agent's configured OS identity. Dataplicity access roles decide who may open a session, but do not add Linux privileges. Support Engineer cannot open a shell; that is a device-action grant. See Support team access, Shell privileges, and the device-side privilege boundary.

Production guides

Guide	Description
Shell privileges	Understand and safely extend device permissions.
Copy and paste	Clipboard support in the terminal.
Process monitoring	See what is running during diagnosis.
Dataplicity Lens	Structured host inspection from the same shell session.
Run scripts in background	Long-running processes.
Control remote access	Plan customer-approved support access.

Confirm the session works

To prove a new shell, run a read-only command such as htop. Optional first-session demos (device speech, ASCII Star Wars) are not production support workflows.

For web application access and resilient file retrieval, see Remote access.