Teleconsole: Share Your Unix Terminal

[alexk]

Hey all, to follow up on everyone’s how it works questions - teleconsole is a demo project built a while ago by Ev, our CEO to showcase the capabilities of https://github.com/gravitational/teleport

[pmoriarty]

So how does this work behind the scenes?

Does the user have to trust the service provider, and can the service provider conceivably distribute malware or take control of the user's machine through this tool?

[alexk]

Cool question actually. We don’t terminate SSH, the server is used to distribute trust, so while technically possible that this could change, or there is some attack vector we did not think of, the implementation is careful to avoid that.

[rabidrat]

That's cool. How does it differ from tmate.io though?

[ossworkerrights]

That's literally less than a 30 seconds read to figure out how this service is different from that tool.

[throwaway744678]

From my understanding, you can use it even behind a NAT, whereas tmate does not handle this natively.

[mfontani]

This one doesn't support read only access, from what I read.

[nih0]

Very cool but I just prefer to attach to a tmux session

[AtticHacker]

Wouldn't this require you to setup your own SSH session? Or does tmux have remote sessions built-in?

Edit: I just realized you can join a session through the browser, meaning the opposite party wouldn't need teleconsole / tmux / screen installed. And you can even port forward for web development which is really nice. Not trying to attack tmux. I'm just trying to find the benefits of this.

[peter_retief]

I got this error? Post https://teleconsole.com:443/api/sessions: unexpected EOF

[nullc]

screen -x?

[Xophmeister]

I was thinking `tmux attach`, but...yeah?

[VeninVidiaVicii]

I came here expecting a terminal fashion show.

[sys_64738]

Facetime?

[enriquto]

in the olden days all the cool kids used ytalk for that