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Re:Show HN: Invite friends to SSH into your laptop using the... by andrewguenther on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @09:58PM (#13488350)
This is really the correct way to accomplish what this project is trying to do. No central proxy server that you need to trust and can be trivially done with the commands you already have installed.

I would honestly highly recommend against using Teleconsole for those reasons.

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Re:Show HN: Invite friends to SSH into your laptop using the... by old-gregg on Thursday January 26, 2017 @12:09AM (#13488928)
No it is not. Connecting two machines behind two different NAT'ed networks requires a proxy of some kind, and there's nothing you already "have installed" that would help you.

Teleconsole is an instant VPN+SSH in one command and it would be wise to educate yourself on what it does (reading just the 1st sentence of the blog post would be a good start) before recommending anything.

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Re:Show HN: Invite friends to SSH into your laptop using the... by kasbah on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @10:08PM (#13488385)
Just authorizing ssh login doesn't solve the NAT traversal.
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