path: root/man/ttyd.1

.TH ttyd 1 "September 2016" ttyd "User Manual"

.SH NAME
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ttyd \- Share your terminal over the web


.SH SYNOPSIS
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\fBttyd\fP [options] <command> [<arguments...>]


.SH Description
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ttyd is a command\-line tool for sharing terminal over the web that runs in *nix and windows systems, with the following features:

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Built on top of Libwebsockets with libuv for speed
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Fully\-featured terminal based on Xterm.js with CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) and IME support
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Graphical ZMODEM integration with lrzsz support
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SSL support based on OpenSSL
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Run any custom command with options
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Basic authentication support and many other custom options
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Cross platform: macOS, Linux, FreeBSD/OpenBSD, OpenWrt/LEDE, Windows

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.SH OPTIONS
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\-p, \-\-port <port>
      Port to listen (default: 7681, use \fB\fC0\fR for random port)

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\-i, \-\-interface <interface>
      Network interface to bind (eg: eth0), or UNIX domain socket path (eg: /var/run/ttyd.sock)

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\-c, \-\-credential USER[:PASSWORD]
      Credential for Basic Authentication (format: username:password)

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\-H, \-\-auth\-header <name>
      HTTP Header name for auth proxy, this will configure ttyd to let a HTTP reverse proxy handle authentication

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\-u, \-\-uid <uid>
      User id to run with

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\-g, \-\-gid <gid>
      Group id to run with

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\-s, \-\-signal <signal string>
      Signal to send to the command when exit it (default: 1, SIGHUP)

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\-w, \-\-cwd <path>
      Working directory to be set for the child program

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\-a, \-\-url\-arg
      Allow client to send command line arguments in URL (eg: 
\[la]http://localhost:7681?arg=foo&arg=bar\[ra])

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\-R, \-\-readonly
      Do not allow clients to write to the TTY

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\-t, \-\-client\-option <key=value>
      Send option to client (format: key=value), repeat to add more options

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\-T, \-\-terminal\-type
      Terminal type to report, default: xterm\-256color

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\-O, \-\-check\-origin
      Do not allow websocket connection from different origin

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\-m, \-\-max\-clients
      Maximum clients to support (default: 0, no limit)

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\-o, \-\-once
      Accept only one client and exit on disconnection

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\-B, \-\-browser
      Open terminal with the default system browser

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\-I, \-\-index <index file>
      Custom index.html path

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\-b, \-\-base\-path
      Expected base path for requests coming from a reverse proxy (eg: /mounted/here, max length: 128)

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\-P, \-\-ping\-interval
      Websocket ping interval(sec) (default: 300)

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\-6, \-\-ipv6
      Enable IPv6 support

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\-S, \-\-ssl
      Enable SSL

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\-C, \-\-ssl\-cert <cert path>
      SSL certificate file path

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\-K, \-\-ssl\-key <key path>
      SSL key file path

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\-A, \-\-ssl\-ca <ca path>
      SSL CA file path for client certificate verification

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\-d, \-\-debug <level>
      Set log level (default: 7)

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\-v, \-\-version
      Print the version and exit

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\-h, \-\-help
      Print this text and exit


.SH Examples
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ttyd starts web server at port 7681 by default, you can use the \-p option to change it, the command will be started with arguments as options. For example, run:

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.nf
ttyd \-p 8080 bash \-x

.fi
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Then open 
\[la]http://localhost:8080\[ra] with a browser, you will get a bash shell with debug mode enabled. More examples:

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If you want to login with your system accounts on the web browser, run \fB\fCttyd login\fR\&.
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You can even run a none shell command like vim, try: \fB\fCttyd vim\fR, the web browser will show you a vim editor.
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Sharing single process with multiple clients: \fB\fCttyd tmux new \-A \-s ttyd vim\fR, run \fB\fCtmux new \-A \-s ttyd\fR to connect to the tmux session from terminal.

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.SH SSL how\-to
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Generate SSL CA and self signed server/client certificates:

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.nf
# CA certificate (FQDN must be different from server/client)
openssl genrsa \-out ca.key 2048
openssl req \-new \-x509 \-days 365 \-key ca.key \-subj "/C=CN/ST=GD/L=SZ/O=Acme, Inc./CN=Acme Root CA" \-out ca.crt

# server certificate (for multiple domains, change subjectAltName to: DNS:example.com,DNS:www.example.com)
openssl req \-newkey rsa:2048 \-nodes \-keyout server.key \-subj "/C=CN/ST=GD/L=SZ/O=Acme, Inc./CN=localhost" \-out server.csr
openssl x509 \-sha256 \-req \-extfile <(printf "subjectAltName=DNS:localhost") \-days 365 \-in server.csr \-CA ca.crt \-CAkey ca.key \-CAcreateserial \-out server.crt

# client certificate (the p12/pem format may be useful for some clients)
openssl req \-newkey rsa:2048 \-nodes \-keyout client.key \-subj "/C=CN/ST=GD/L=SZ/O=Acme, Inc./CN=client" \-out client.csr
openssl x509 \-req \-days 365 \-in client.csr \-CA ca.crt \-CAkey ca.key \-CAcreateserial \-out client.crt
openssl pkcs12 \-export \-clcerts \-in client.crt \-inkey client.key \-out client.p12
openssl pkcs12 \-in client.p12 \-out client.pem \-clcerts

.fi
.RE

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Then start ttyd:

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.nf
ttyd \-\-ssl \-\-ssl\-cert server.crt \-\-ssl\-key server.key \-\-ssl\-ca ca.crt bash

.fi
.RE

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You may want to test the client certificate verification with \fIcurl\fP(1):

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.nf
curl \-\-insecure \-\-cert client.p12[:password] \-v https://localhost:7681

.fi
.RE

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If you don't want to enable client certificate verification, remove the \fB\fC\-\-ssl\-ca\fR option.


.SH Docker and ttyd
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Docker containers are jailed environments which are more secure, this is useful for protecting the host system, you may use ttyd with docker like this:

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Sharing single docker container with multiple clients: docker run \-it \-\-rm \-p 7681:7681 tsl0922/ttyd.
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Creating new docker container for each client: ttyd docker run \-it \-\-rm ubuntu.

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.SH Nginx reverse proxy
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Sample config to proxy ttyd under the \fB\fC/ttyd\fR path:

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.nf
location \~ ^/ttyd(.*)$ {
    proxy\_http\_version 1.1;
    proxy\_set\_header Host $host;
    proxy\_set\_header X\-Forwarded\-Proto $scheme;
    proxy\_set\_header X\-Forwarded\-For $proxy\_add\_x\_forwarded\_for;
    proxy\_set\_header Upgrade $http\_upgrade;
    proxy\_set\_header Connection "upgrade";
    proxy\_pass http://127.0.0.1:7681/$1;
}

.fi
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.SH AUTHOR
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Shuanglei Tao <tsl0922@gmail.com> Visit 
\[la]https://github.com/tsl0922/ttyd\[ra] to get more information and report bugs.