Thread: Shell Access

If I get shell access in Cpanel can I copy huge chunk of files by authentication through it ? Please guide me. I want to download large zip files exceeding 600 MB in size it has authentication so I need to authenticate before I can download the files.

If the server the file is on has an FTP server on it you can log into your shell account and download it via an FTP client.

From the shell do:

ftp hostname.blah.com
cd whateverdir
get hugefile.zip

If you've got shell access on the target server simply use wget

the command sytax looks like this:

wget -c ftp://username:password@host/path/to/file

Lets say your FTP server is running cpanel and is ftp.domain.com, username is WTF, password is wtfftw, and the file resides publicly in domain.com/downloads/bigfile.zip this is what the command will look like:

wget -c ftp://wtf:wtfftw@ftp.domain.com/public_html/downloads/bigfile.zip

We use the -c flag in case the download gets interrupted this way you can restart from the same point later.

Edited to added:

You can also connect to the source server over the SSH protocol using the same syntax but changing FTP:// to SSH://.

Thank you very much guys but I lately came to know that it's password protected directory and the user login credentials are not FTP they are only Directory access username and password, what do I do in this case

I recently bought games pack which exceed more than 600+ MB in size and it's a big pain downloading them because we have frequent load shedding in our country. Please advice me more.

A proxy can help you circumvent restrictions in your country, particularly if you use an SSH Tunnel as a proxy. That might be getting a little complicated if you only plan on using it once, however.

But why would I need proxy for this ? I only need to authenticate and download the file ?

The ssh tunnel proxy would be used to get around your country's traffic shaping. Your browser can then be used to authenticate and download the file.

Oh I got it I have the shell access but I don't know how to login any detailed guide ?

Here are the guides. Do the first one then the next one:

Configure PuTTY To Create SSH SOCKS Proxy For Secure Browsing

Configure Firefox To Use SSH SOCKS Proxy Tunnel

It might be kind of complicated for the simple thing you need to do but my ISP most likely does traffic shaping even here in the U.S. and this type of tunnel helps me get around that.

Thank you once again vectro, I went through the tutorial and used the following command line

putty.exe -D 9853 username@sshhost and press Enter

but I am getting error messages like connection refused... any other alternatives.

Did you replace username@sshhost with with your actual username and your actual host? If your username is chuman and your host is example.com you would enter it like:

putty.exe -D 9853 chuman@example.com

Also, your shell account provider might be operating on a different port than the default. You might want to ask them what the correct connection settings are.

Yes I changed the username I see the default port set is 22 I will ask them and try again.. Thank you very much Vectro For your continuos replies.

Now that I think about it, some shell providers disable tunneling. You might want to ask them about that.

I asked my host about the port and I got it I can now connected and just copied a zip of 630+ MB thank you very very much Vectro with out your kind support I wouldn't get it so easily.

Thank you once again