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So, they implemented Active Directory/RADIUS, a terminal proxy, screen, and a web gui? Does this not seem to anyone else like a weird mix of features for one to

• noobermin 11y ago
  Perhaps the mix into one tool is what makes it novel? I'll be honest, my first knee-jerk, HN conditioned, reaction to this was similar to yours, but I've been trying to temper my first reactions, especially when they are negative. Not the most central thing, but something that put me off a little was that they offer a command to filter the listings...had these people never heard of grep? The playback of terminal sessions is cool though, although I swear I've seen someone else do that somewhere...
  • old-gregg 11y ago
    noobermin: thanks for looking at Teleport with an open mind. Good point on grep: our people have heard of it. :) The reason `tsh` takes label filters as an argument to all of its sub-commands (not just "ls") is to perform actions only on machines that fit the criteria, maybe you want to "tsh scp" a file to all "distro=debian" nodes, or you want to "tsh ssh role=postgres_master" not knowing which node is the master at this time. The background story behind these little "niceties" is this: internally we've always wanted to have a bit of Ansible-like slice&dice magic in interactive mode for raw SSH, so we've built it and sharing it: perhaps someone else would find it useful.
  • abstractbeliefs 11y ago
    Perhaps the playback tool you're thinking of is asciinema? https://asciinema.org/ https://asciinema.org/
    • noobermin 11y ago
      Yup, that is it.