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Turn on/off your remote machine without leaving your couch!

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    License

    GNU General Public License v3.0

    Ever wanted to turn on your remote machine (laptop, Raspberry, NAS), but didn't want to leave the couch? Well I for sure

    understand this problem to the heart. But fear no more, as BootBoi is here to save you from the gruesome task of standing up

    and pushing a button.

    BootBoi features remote power on / power off / reboot for as many remote machines as you can imagine with the

    combined power of SSH and Wake On Lan.

    Preparing your Remote Machine

    * Before you can use BootBoi with your remote machines, you have to prepare them for **remote** rebooting and powering them on/off.

    Power On

    * To power a remote device on, BootBoi uses <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake-on-LAN">Wake On Lan</a>.

    * This needs to be enabled in the BIOS of the machine you want to power on, read more <a href="https://www.lifewire.com/wake-on-lan-4149800">here</a>.

    Power Off / Reboot

    * BootBoi uses <a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Shell">SSH</a> to execute whoami, poweroff and reboot on the remote machine.

    * So make sure that

    * Those binaries are available and in $PATH

    * The SSH user has sudo access to whoami, poweroff and reboot

    * Either by allowing the user sudo access only to those binaries via the <a href="https://linux.die.net/man/5/sudoers">sudoers file</a> (recommended)

    * E.g. `echo "my_ssh_user ALL=(ALL) /sbin/reboot,/sbin/poweroff,/usr/bin/whoami" >> /etc/local/sudoers`

    * Or by using root as SSH user in BootBoi

    Creator

    BootBoi

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