Tmate.io Website Review

You may install the tmate-nightly package for daily builds. A few dependencies are required. The Ubuntu package names are: git-core build-essential pkg-config libtool libevent-dev libncurses-dev zlib1g-dev automake libssh-dev libmsgpack-dev The read-only connection string can be retreived with tmate show-messages. You can run tmate detached, and retrieve the SSH connection strings as follow: You can think of tmate as a reverse ssh tunnel accessible from anywhere. You need a Linux distribution as tmate utilizes linux specific features. tmate also depends on a couple of packages. On Ubuntu, the packages are: git-core build-essential pkg-config libtool libevent-dev libncurses-dev zlib1g-dev automake libssh-dev cmake ruby Once all the prerequisites are satisfied, you can install tmate-sl*ve with: Once your server is running, you must configure the clients to use your custom server. set -g tmate-server-host ssh.tmate.io set -g tmate-server-port 22 set -g tmate-server-rsa-fingerprint   af:2d:81:c1:fe:49:70:2d:7f:09:a9:d7:4b:32:e3:be set -g tmate-server-ecdsa-fingerprint c7:a1:51:36:d2:bb:35:4b:0a:1a:c0:43:97:74:ea:42 If you are interested in fault tolerance, you may setup the tmate-server-host host to resolve to multiple IPs. The tmate client will try them all, and keep to the most responsive one. ssh.tmate.io resolves to seven servers located in San Fransisco, New York, Torondo, London, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, and Singapore. Figure 1 depicts the architecture diagram with the different components of the system. The following describes the connection process with its security considerations, the protocol used between the two tmux servers, and the roadmap of tmate. When launching tmate, an ssh connection is established to tmate.io (or your own server) in the background through libssh When a connection is established, a 150 bits session token is generated, then a tmux server is spawned in a jail with no file from other processes, and no user privileges. To allow this, all files required during the tmux server execution are opened before getting