You can use "croc SSH" to share a terminal (this replaces tmate)

1 pointsposted 8 hours ago
by gregsadetsky

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gregsadetsky

8 hours ago

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 error

[2] https://github.com/tmate-io/tmate/issues/322 "I'm closing the servers permanently"

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48882034