Upterm
Secure terminal sharing for pair programming and support
Upterm is an open-source tool for sharing terminal sessions securely over SSH for pair programming and remote assistance. It can be used with a self-hosted relay server.
Key features
- Terminal session sharing
- SSH-based security
- Self-hostable server
- Pair programming
Strengths
- Released under the Apache-2.0 license
- Active community (1.3k GitHub stars)
- Written in Go
- Tiny footprint — runs in 128 MB RAM
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