termproxy: share a program with others (for pairing!)

termproxy is currently alpha quality

termproxy is a shared program tool. It allows you to start the program of your choice (a shell, vim/emacs, etc) and allows others to connect and interact with it. The intended use case is pairing.

SSL Notice

This program makes heavy use of SSL and certificates. Follow the instructions below to generate a CA, server and client certificate for use.

$ host=$(cat /etc/hostname)
$ PATH=$HOME:$PATH
$ GOPATH=$HOME
$ go get github.com/SvenDowideit/generate_cert
$ generate_cert --cert ca.crt  --key ca.key -overwrite
$ generate_cert --ca ca.crt --ca-key ca.key \
  --cert server.crt --key server.key \
  --host "$host" --overwrite
$ generate_cert --ca ca.crt --ca-key ca.key \
  --cert client.crt --key client.key \
  --overwrite

Then ship the ca.crt and client.* files to your client users. Note that the files must be in the current working directory for both the server and the client.

Alternatively, if you may wish to run the generate_certs.sh script at the root of this repository which will generate the appropriate certs for a CA, server, and a single client key, and copy the appropriate certificates and keys into the termproxy-client directory. This script is mostly useful for development of termproxy.

Installation

# for the server
$ go get github.com/erikh/termproxy
# for the client
$ go get github.com/erikh/termproxy/termproxy-client

Author

Erik Hollensbe erik@hollensbe.org