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Keep a record of every session

When someone asks what happened on that server last Tuesday, you can show them, line by line.

With session recording on, Termiyo keeps what each new terminal session showed, when and on which server, encrypted with your vault key and stored on your computer; a password typed at a prompt it recognises is left out. You can read a session back, search it and mark the line where something broke. Use it when you need to show what happened on a server. A secret printed on screen is in the log like everything else.

With recording on, every new session is kept: what was on screen, when, and on which server. Logs are encrypted with your vault key and stay on this computer. A password typed at a prompt Termiyo recognises is left out.

Recorded in Termiyo against a test server on the recording machine, answering as a demo machine written for the recording. The password typed in it is a made-up one, and the recording shows it left out of the log.

Steps

  1. Turn recording on

    Open Settings › Logs, tick “Record new sessions” and press “Save”. It applies to sessions opened from then on — SSH, Telnet, serial and local shells — and “Keep for” sets how many days logs are kept.

  2. Work as usual

    Connect and work. When a program asks for a password and you type it, Termiyo records the prompt but not what you typed.

  3. Read a session back

    Open the server’s page and choose “Logs”. Under “Session logs”, pick a session to read it line by line, and search it with “Find in this log”. “Host log” beside it reads the server’s own journal and log files.

  4. Mark the line where it broke

    Select a line and write a note — “This is where it broke…” — then press “Add note”. Bookmark a log to keep it past the retention window.

Good to know

  • A log holds what was on screen. Termiyo leaves out passwords typed at prompts it recognises, but a secret that was printed on screen is in the log like everything else.

Transcript

When someone asks what happened on that server last Tuesday, you can show them, line by line.

Turn on recording, and every new session is kept, encrypted with your vault key.

Work as usual. A password typed at a prompt is left out of the record.

Read any session back later, line by line, and search it.

Mark the line where it broke, with a note for whoever reads it next.