owenthereal/upterm

Health v2 · maintenance only

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1284 stars · 81 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Upterm is an open-source CLI tool for instantly sharing terminal sessions over secure SSH tunnels to the public internet. It supports remote pair programming, accessing machines behind NATs/firewalls, and remote debugging, with access control via SSH public keys or GitHub/GitLab/SourceHut/Codeberg identities.

Use cases

• share a terminal session with a teammate for pair programming
• ssh into a machine behind NAT or firewall
• let a colleague debug a problem in my terminal remotely
• host a shared tmux session like tmate
• run a remote command session with authorized-key access control
• transfer files to a shared session via scp or sftp
• proxy a terminal session over websocket

When to choose

• you need instant terminal sharing without VPN or port forwarding
• you want a self-hostable or hosted tmate alternative
• you need fine-grained access control via SSH keys or GitHub usernames
• you want cross-platform single-binary installation

When to avoid

• you need a full remote desktop or GUI sharing solution
• you only need plain SSH access to a publicly reachable server
• you require audit/compliance features beyond basic SSH logging
• you need web-browser-based terminal sharing without SSH clients

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

ssh security developer-tools terminal-ui networking developer-tools security networking windows cli cross-platform go terminal-sharing remote-pair-programming ssh-tunnel nat-traversal tmate-alternative remote-debugging command-line linux macos

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