DAdarcien·Jul 8, 2026Submission
2 points · Open discussionMisterTea
EternalTerminal
C++2017–2026
MisterTea / EternalTerminal
EternalTerminal
Re-Connectable secure remote shell
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Re-Connectable secure remote shell
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| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
10 sourcesI have replaced it with Eternal Terminal: https://github.com/MisterTea/EternalTerminal
But I don't know how widespread that is.
In Mosh Mobile ShellEternalTerminal: Re-Connectable secure remote shell
1 points · Open discussion>> maintain a persistent ssh tunnel
SSH agent forwarding was merged 3 months ago (after the patch waited 7+ years in one form or another), but per https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/437299 → https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/issues/337 (2012), mosh does not yet officially support port forwarding, despite https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/pull/583 (2013 → 2015 → 2017). It appears the initiator of the original patch has maintained their fork: https://github.com/rinne/mosh (disclaimer: I don't use mosh and have not tried or reviewed the differences from the official version).
Perhaps https://github.com/MisterTea/EternalTerminal is a viable alternative. Per https://github.com/MisterTea/EternalTerminal/issues/473#issu..., 'Several security teams have reviewed ET.'
In SSH into private machines from anywhere using Cloudflare TunnelI created an issue for it and then a PR also.
Issue: https://github.com/MisterTea/EternalTerminal/issues/253
PR: https://github.com/MisterTea/EternalTerminal/pull/255
Note that the version in FreeBSD ports was a bit out of date and they changed the command-line flags between then and now so I built the most recent version from source and had to make a small change in CMakeLists.txt in order to be able to build it, for which I submitted a separate PR.
CMakeLists.txt PR: https://github.com/MisterTea/EternalTerminal/pull/254
If these two PRs are accepted and a new version of Eternal Terminal is released with these changes included then I can ask the FreeBSD package maintainers to update the port and for that rc.d service file to be included in the FreeBSD port and package.
In Eternal TerminalThe source is here:
https://github.com/MisterTea/EternalTerminal
In Eternal TerminalGreat, they seem to have just solved `-R` (reverse) tunnels: https://github.com/MisterTea/EternalTerminal/pull/80
In The Surface Book 2 is everything the MacBook Pro should beET may be insecure. It was recently possible to segfault it with corrupted network inputs.
https://github.com/MisterTea/EternalTCP/issues/79
In Xi: an editor for the next 20 years [video]ET might be insecure. It has recently been easy to segfault with network traffic.
https://github.com/MisterTea/EternalTCP/issues/79
In A minimalist guide to tmuxHey, please file an issue on github: https://github.com/MisterTea/EternalTCP/issues
You may be running a distro that doesn't have libsodium (such as ubuntu 14). In this case you have to grab libsodium manually and build et from source.
In Eternal Terminal: Remote terminal for the busy and impatient