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Dev tools · January 25, 2017

Invite friends to SSH into your laptop using their GitHub handle

We talk about a new feature in Teleconsole:\ you can turn any laptop into a secure and publicly accessible SSH server which uses Github SSH keys for authentication.

Invite friends to SSH into your laptop using their GitHub handle launched on January 25, 2017 with 334 votes, #50 of 3,671 launches that month and more than 99% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 9 years on.

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In plain words

Teleconsole is a free tool that converts a laptop into a secure, publicly accessible SSH server using GitHub SSH keys for authentication. Developers can invite colleagues to remotely access their machine for collaborative debugging sessions across different networks and NAT environments without manual configuration. It's designed for distributed teams needing quick, secure access to machines in various locations.

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From the sources

Wouldn't it be great to allow a fellow developer to quickly and securely SSH into your laptop when you're in the middle of a debugging session even if you are on two separate networks behind NAT? A few months ago we released a free tool, Teleconsole , we built so we could do exactly that. We are a distributed team, with bare metal servers sitting in our San Francisco office, several AWS and Azure regions and a bunch of customer environments we are sometimes asked to jump into. This is how we invite each other to any server or laptop. It works behind most firewalls without messing around with VPNs. This is great but it also means that anybody with this session ID can now join your session.…from gravitational.com

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