Tmate - Instant terminal sharing

by namuorg • 13 years ago

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kareemk3• 13 years ago

I've tried this out and it is dramatically better then other alternatives, full screen-sharing suffers from latency issues (screenhero, logmein, etc...) and sharing an ssh session is a pain to get setup (e.g. wemux). I highly recommend it.

kfir2• 13 years ago

I don't get it why not just use tmux?!

tmux -S /tmp/pair

chmod 777 /tmp/pair

tmux -S /tmp/pair attach

nviennot3• 13 years ago

Because you need to open some port on your router, create an SSH account, and let your friend connect to your machine. That's a pain point.

kfir2• 13 years ago

From the video it looks like this works via SSH as well so you will still need to "create an SSH account, and let your friend connect to your machine"

kareemk3• 13 years ago

This is tmux with the headache of sharing an ssh session solved.

leishulang• 13 years ago

so share ssh token instead of share ssh credentials?

wisesascha• 13 years ago

Why is this any better then wemux

nviennot3• 13 years ago

with wemux, you still need to give SSH access to your local machine, but with tmate, you don't give SSH access. As a matter of fact, you don't even need an SSH server on your machine.

The trouble of having to setup networking // SSH accounts is gone

huma• 13 years ago

A package for Archlinux: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/tmate/

nviennot3• 13 years ago

Added on the http://tmate.io

Thanks!

joshbaptiste• 13 years ago

I really really like this project.. combined with some HTML output page of some sort, one can display errors in real time to an interested party for debugging purposes.

Tmate - Instant terminal sharing

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