SSH Terminal

SSH Terminal is installed.

Two minutes of setup and you will have a shell. The first step matters most: Chrome hides new extensions, so pin it now and you will be able to find it later.

  1. Pin it to the toolbar

    Click the puzzle-piece icon at the right of the Chrome toolbar, find SSH Terminal in the list, and click the pin beside it. The icon then stays in the toolbar — that is how you open it from now on.

    EXTENSIONS SSH Terminal

  2. Connect to a server

    Click the icon and type a destination the way you would in any terminal — [email protected]. A password prompt opens in a new tab, the server's host key is verified, and it is remembered for next time.

    A non-standard port works too: [email protected]:2222.

    The extension popup, with a field for the destination and a Connect button

  3. Bring the setup you already have

    Open Manage… in the popup to import your ~/.ssh/config — every host in it becomes a saved connection — and to import a private key. Keys are kept on this device and are never uploaded: the agent signs locally and sends only the signature.

    You can also connect from the address bar: type ssh, press Tab, then the host.

One thing worth knowing

Chrome extensions cannot open a raw TCP socket, so your sessions travel through a relay we run. SSH is encrypted end to end, so the relay moves bytes it cannot read; it journals the destination and the volume for 30 days, and nothing you type. The whole of it is written out in the privacy policy, and you can point the extension at a relay you run yourself.

Something not working? Support — or open an issue on GitHub.