tmate-ssh-server for Debian =========================== To open a terminal session with your tmate-ssh-server server, you need to create a ~/.tmate.conf file on the host where the terminal session is to be hosted. It needs to include the fingerprint of the ssh key used by the tmate-server. To retrieve it, run: $ ssh-keygen -l -E md5 -f /etc/tmate-ssh-server/keys/ssh_host_rsa_key.pub $ ssh-keygen -l -E md5 -f /etc/tmate-ssh-server/keys/ssh_host_ecdsa_key.pub Copy the hash after "MD5:" to the template below: ~/.tmate.conf: set -g tmate-server-host "tmate-ssh-server.example.com" set -g tmate-server-port 10022 set -g tmate-server-rsa-fingerprint "00:11:22:33:44:55:66:77:88:99:aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff" set -g tmate-server-ecdsa-fingerprint "00:11:22:33:44:55:66:77:88:99:aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff" On the host where the terminal session is to be run, "tmate" needs to be installed. Users accessing the terminal session merely need to have a standard ssh client installed.