Show HN: Invite friends to SSH into your laptop using their GitHub handle

#1

Post by twakefield » Wed, Jan 25, 2017, 8:09 PM UTC

Show HN: Invite friends to SSH into your laptop using their GitHub handle
gravitational.com

Re: Show HN: Invite friends to SSH into your laptop using their GitHub handle

#2

Post by twakefield » Wed, Jan 25, 2017, 8:18 PM UTC

Hey HN - This is basically a hosted version of Teleport[0], which may scare some people. We don't store the sessions and you can always self-host if you prefer.

[0] http://gravitational.com/teleport/

Re: Show HN: Invite friends to SSH into your laptop using their GitHub handle

#3

Post by problems » Wed, Jan 25, 2017, 8:26 PM UTC

Yeah, what a great idea, let random "cloud" services authenticate who gets to login to your machine!

Re: Show HN: Invite friends to SSH into your laptop using their GitHub handle

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Post by sigjuice » Wed, Jan 25, 2017, 8:28 PM UTC

I'm guessing the SSH session between me and my friend is not encrypted end-to-end because of proxies and what not in between?

Re: Show HN: Invite friends to SSH into your laptop using their GitHub handle

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jan 25, 2017, 8:28 PM UTC

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Re: Show HN: Invite friends to SSH into your laptop using their GitHub handle

#6

Post by akerro » Wed, Jan 25, 2017, 8:28 PM UTC

I would rather invite 4chan to my laptop than my friends ;]

Re: Show HN: Invite friends to SSH into your laptop using their GitHub handle

#7

Post by OJFord » Wed, Jan 25, 2017, 8:31 PM UTC

Would be neat if having done

    teleconsole -i other_users_github_id

my teleconsole session ID would be sent to server along with my Github ID (optionally other user's too) so that they could

    teleconsole -j my_github_id

to join instead of having to share session ID and fumble around with that.

No more/less secure that I can see, but it would be more convenient.

Re: Show HN: Invite friends to SSH into your laptop using their GitHub handle

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Post by old-gregg » Wed, Jan 25, 2017, 8:38 PM UTC

sigjuice wrote: post #4

I'm guessing the SSH session between me and my friend is not encrypted end-to-end because of proxies and what not in between?

It is properly encrypted:

Your machine, being an SSH server, gets to decide who can login. The encryption works just with any normal SSH session: between the end user and the server (your machine).

The cloud bridge running on https://teleconsole.com simply acts as a proxy connecting sockets between two users who are behind NAT (without being able to decrypt).

Disclaimer: I'm the author of Teleconsole. [edit: formatting]

Re: Show HN: Invite friends to SSH into your laptop using their GitHub handle

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Post by scandox » Wed, Jan 25, 2017, 8:42 PM UTC

I don't have friends that know what SSH is. Just wonderful colleagues.

Re: Show HN: Invite friends to SSH into your laptop using their GitHub handle

#10

Post by matt_wulfeck » Wed, Jan 25, 2017, 8:43 PM UTC

> ssh-import-I'd gh:my-gh-name

That little command will pull down your GitHub public keys and add them to authorized key file for the user who runs it. Great for setting up new computers. I run it on boot-time for imbedded devices so that I can always access them.