# Teleconsole Adds GitHub Handle Authentication for SSH Sessions

DevFeed: [Teleconsole Adds GitHub Handle Authentication for SSH Sessions](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/ssh-into-your-laptop-using-their-github-handle-29714.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://goteleport.com/blog/instant-ssh-github/>)

Author: taylor@goteleport.com (Taylor Wakefield)

Published: 2017-01-25T00:00:00Z

Content type: release

Language: en

Sources: [Teleport](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/teleport.md>)

Topics: [ssh](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ssh.md>), [Authentication](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/authentication.md>), [GitHub](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/github.md>), [Server](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/server.md>), [Networks](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/networks.md>)

Tags: [authentication](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/authentication.md>), [firewalls](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/firewalls.md>), [github](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/github.md>), [networks](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/networks.md>), [private-key](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/private-key.md>), [public-key](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/public-key.md>), [server](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/server.md>), [ssh](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ssh.md>)

## AI overview

Teleconsole adds GitHub handle support for SSH session authentication. Users can specify a GitHub handle, allowing Teleconsole to retrieve the associated public key and restrict session access to someone with the matching private key, including when participants are behind separate networks or NAT.

## Source excerpt

We talk about a new feature in Teleconsole:\ you can turn any laptop into a secure and publicly accessible SSH server which uses Github SSH keys for authentication.