Team Collaboration

Termius is a modern SSH client designed for collaboration. It helps your team stay on the same page by keeping Hosts, Keys, Snippets, Port Forwarding rules, and Known Hosts in encrypted cloud vaults. Termius creates an environment where collaboration happens seamlessly and securely, minimizing miscommunication and downtime.

Single source of truth

Old-school SSH clients were never designed with collaboration in mind. Teams often maintain shared spreadsheets, wikis, or NetBox as a single source of truth. This scattered approach leads to wasted time and confusion—team members search for connection information in one place and copy and paste it to their SSH client of choice, only to learn someone forgot to update the details. So they now must spend more time asking who knows where to get the latest connection details.

Termius transforms this process by introducing vaults. Vaults serve as a single source of truth for Hosts, Groups, Snippets, Port Forwarding rules, and Credentials—all stored securely and updated in real time. With a single click, every team member has immediate access to the connection details they need, ensuring that everyone is always on the same page.

How to enable

• Invite your teammates to Termius to start a free trial.

• Define vault structure according to your use case.

Coordination of effort

During incidents, every second is critical. Teams typically use group chats to coordinate who's working on what. Unfortunately, people tend to jump into the problem without notifying the rest of the team. As a result, multiple people might end up working independently on the same host and task, leading to duplicated efforts or even conflicting actions.

Termius addresses this challenge by displaying which teammates are currently connected to a host. This at-a-glance overview lets you coordinate efforts effortlessly, ensuring that the right person is tackling the issue while keeping everyone informed.

How to enable

• Invite your teammates to Termius to start a free trial.

• Add hosts to a vault and ensure your teammates has access to this vault.

• Ask your teammates to connect to a host from the vault, and you'll see they are connected.

Real-time collaboration

Having a second pair of eyes on the problem can save time. However, remote troubleshooting can be tricky. Screen-sharing via video calls often results in low-resolution text and a cumbersome exchange of copy-pasted commands.

Termius introduces the Multiplayer mode for the Terminal to let you directly join a teammate’s terminal session. Whether providing guidance or taking over control to help with a fix, you can collaborate without the inefficiencies of switching between chat and command line.

How to enable

• Invite your teammates to Termius to start a free trial.

• Add hosts to a vault and ensure your teammates have access to this vault.

• Join an ongoing terminal session where a teammate is already connected.

• Start a multiplayer session by sharing a secure link with people outside your team.

• Request remote control to input directly in the Terminal.

Shared Snippets

Internal documentation often includes guides and workflows with terminal commands to help your team with occasional problems. These documents might quickly get outdated if not maintained. However, even well-maintained documentation requires team members to copy and paste every command manually. It makes the use of documentation slow and error-prone.

Termius makes this easier by allowing your team to build a shared repository of pre-tested, labeled commands. Shared Snippets provide a centralized knowledge base directly accessible from the terminal. With everything organized into packages based on use cases, your team can quickly find and execute commands without the hassle of manual updates.

How to enable

• Invite your teammates to Termius to start a free trial.

• Save commands as Snippets in a vault and ensure your teammates have access to this vault.

• Organize Snippets into packages based on their use case.

• Find and run snippets in the terminal using a side menu or autocomplete.

Shared Port Forwarding

Port forwarding is a powerful tool often required for developers, DB engineers, and other team members who may be less experienced with SSH and terminals. So your team usually has to set Port Forwarding Rules for the rest of the team in their SSH clients.

With Termius, you can create, update, and share port forwarding configurations with the team. This means your developers, DB engineers, and others can turn on the Port Forwarding rule with a double click without needing to know how it is configured.

How to enable

• Create a vault for your use case.

• Configure port forwarding rules within this vault.

• Invite your developers and DB engineers to Termius and add them to the vault.

Shared Known Hosts

Known Hosts is a powerful security tool that is hard to use properly in a team environment. When team members connect to hosts created by other members, they often treat the question about Known Hosts as a question about Cookies, clicking “Yes” to every prompt without verifying fingerprints.

Termius reintroduces Known Hosts to teams. Once the host is created in a vault and one teammate has connected and confirmed its fingerprint, its known host is saved in the same vault. So every other member will not be asked to verify the fingerprint unless it was actually changed.

How to enable

• Invite your teammates to Termius to start a free trial.

• Import known_hosts file to a vault and ensure your teammates have access to this vault.

• For new hosts simply connect and verify the fingerprint to save its known host in the vault.

• Ask your team to stay alert next time they see the question about the host's fingerprint.
  
  

Kick-start collaboration

Trying the collaboration is easy. Invite your first teammate to Termius and explore how your teamwork transforms.