Provided by: ttyd_1.7.0-1_amd64 
NAME
ttyd - Share your terminal over the web
SYNOPSIS
ttyd [options] <command> [<arguments...>]
Description
ttyd is a command-line tool for sharing terminal over the web that runs in *nix and
windows systems, with the following features:
• Built on top of Libwebsockets with libuv for speed
• Fully-featured terminal based on Xterm.js with CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean)
and IME support
• Graphical ZMODEM integration with lrzsz support
• SSL support based on OpenSSL
• Run any custom command with options
• Basic authentication support and many other custom options
• Cross platform: macOS, Linux, FreeBSD/OpenBSD, OpenWrt/LEDE, Windows
OPTIONS
-p, --port <port>
Port to listen (default: 7681, use 0 for random port)
-i, --interface <interface>
Network interface to bind (eg: eth0), or UNIX domain socket path (eg:
/var/run/ttyd.sock)
-c, --credential USER[:PASSWORD]
Credential for Basic Authentication (format: username:password)
-H, --auth-header <name>
HTTP Header name for auth proxy, this will configure ttyd to let a HTTP reverse
proxy handle authentication
-u, --uid <uid>
User id to run with
-g, --gid <gid>
Group id to run with
-s, --signal <signal string>
Signal to send to the command when exit it (default: 1, SIGHUP)
-w, --cwd <path>
Working directory to be set for the child program
-a, --url-arg
Allow client to send command line arguments in URL (eg:
⟨http://localhost:7681?arg=foo&arg=bar⟩)
-R, --readonly
Do not allow clients to write to the TTY
-t, --client-option <key=value>
Send option to client (format: key=value), repeat to add more options
-T, --terminal-type
Terminal type to report, default: xterm-256color
-O, --check-origin
Do not allow websocket connection from different origin
-m, --max-clients
Maximum clients to support (default: 0, no limit)
-o, --once
Accept only one client and exit on disconnection
-B, --browser
Open terminal with the default system browser
-I, --index <index file>
Custom index.html path
-b, --base-path
Expected base path for requests coming from a reverse proxy (eg: /mounted/here, max
length: 128)
-P, --ping-interval
Websocket ping interval(sec) (default: 300)
-6, --ipv6
Enable IPv6 support
-S, --ssl
Enable SSL
-C, --ssl-cert <cert path>
SSL certificate file path
-K, --ssl-key <key path>
SSL key file path
-A, --ssl-ca <ca path>
SSL CA file path for client certificate verification
-d, --debug <level>
Set log level (default: 7)
-v, --version
Print the version and exit
-h, --help
Print this text and exit
Examples
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:
ttyd -p 8080 bash -x
Then open ⟨http://localhost:8080⟩ with a browser, you will get a bash shell with debug
mode enabled. More examples:
• If you want to login with your system accounts on the web browser, run ttyd
login.
• You can even run a none shell command like vim, try: ttyd vim, the web browser
will show you a vim editor.
• Sharing single process with multiple clients: ttyd tmux new -A -s ttyd vim, run
tmux new -A -s ttyd to connect to the tmux session from terminal.
SSL how-to
Generate SSL CA and self signed server/client certificates:
# 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
Then start ttyd:
ttyd --ssl --ssl-cert server.crt --ssl-key server.key --ssl-ca ca.crt bash
You may want to test the client certificate verification with curl(1):
curl --insecure --cert client.p12[:password] -v https://localhost:7681
If you don't want to enable client certificate verification, remove the --ssl-ca option.
Docker and ttyd
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:
• Sharing single docker container with multiple clients: docker run -it --rm -p
7681:7681 tsl0922/ttyd.
• Creating new docker container for each client: ttyd docker run -it --rm ubuntu.
Nginx reverse proxy
Sample config to proxy ttyd under the /ttyd path:
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;
}
AUTHOR
Shuanglei Tao <tsl0922@gmail.com> Visit ⟨https://github.com/tsl0922/ttyd⟩ to get more
information and report bugs.