tmate

Tmate [0] used to be my goto for sharing terminals, but it's now fully not working [1][2]. I've tried a few other options recently, but could not get anything working. It's especially frustrating when you're trying to help a not very technical person and you keep asking them "ok run this instead in your terminal... ctrl-c..." etc. I reached out to my friend Zack Schollz who's behind croc (past thread - [3]) and asked him whether he could add support for ssh and he... just did. He added read, read+write, web and terminal client sharing support. It's bananas, and it works super well (just tested on a fresh digital ocean droplet). Just wanted to PSA/Tell HN!! Tmate was a really beautiful and great solution - it's sad that it went away. But we have something else now! Cheers [0] https://github.com/tmate-io/tmate [1] https://tmate.io/ - 503 er

Tmate is not available anymore, and will be fully decommissioned[0]. Use upterm[1] and action-upterm[2] instead. Honestly, this should be built into GitHub Actions. [0] https://github.com/tmate-io/tmate/issues/322 [1] https://upterm.dev/ [2] https://github.com/marketplace/actions/debug-with-ssh

Not that I can think of. I've been a happy tmate user for several years, and the feature set is more than I need. The bad parts have just been reliability at some points over the past few years. In my case, I can only recall having bumped into this[0] one. [0]: https://github.com/tmate-io/tmate/issues/32

We've been toying with duckly (née gitduck) - and it provides shared web browsing, shared editing, and shared terminal. There might be some rough edges with the in-browser "window management" - but overall it works pretty well IMHO: https://duckly.com/tools/terminal Unfortunately not self-hosted. We briefly tried tmate - do yourself a favour and get the upstream build (available as static binaries for Linux) - it's a bit finky about versions. Eg via: https://github.com/tmate-io/tmate/releases/tag/2.4.0 get https://github.com/tmate-io/tmate/releases/download/2.4.0/tm... and drop the extracted binary in ~/bin or something. You can self-hosted tmate, but imnho tmate doesn't add that much value over "grant user ssh access and use plain shared tmux/screen". In that case, you might (for workstation/laptop) have co-worker's on vpn via wireguard

Can this be used similar to tmate (https://github.com/tmate-io/tmate) to easily share a shell? Why I asked for this is because tmate isn't really that secure. You have to trust the relay server. Maybe tunshell can be combined with tmux directly to open a shared view.

I know that the author wants to use VS Code. But for those reading here and live in the terminal, tmate[1] is truly incredible. Install and type `tmate`, and you have a tmux session that people can SSH into. I have used it countless times and is a great complement to a video sessions. Much better than pixelated fonts in a screen share. [1]: https://github.com/tmate-io/tmate

tmate is pretty good as a way of sharing a tmux session over the internet (which precludes you do development in a terminal)[1]. We use it quite a bit in my team as a quick way to explain/debug a problem. [1]: https://github.com/tmate-io/tmate