Simple Tunneling with tmate

Our cloud server, ssh tunneling, and the SOCKS proxy provide a secure, reliable and lightweight means of connecting to another programmer. The skills required to create this environment are essential—especially when sharing a web server—but they can become cumbersome. As a result, most remote developers write custom tools that make the process easier. These tools range from simple shell scripts to complete applications. One such application is tmate, which makes a remote connection easier, faster, and even more secure.

tmate is a fork of tmux that adds a remote connection feature. We create a tmate session much like a tmux session, but the session immediately connects to a slave server in the cloud making it easy ...

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