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Saved remote desktops, saved SSH connections and one common password

Keep your remote desktops and SSH connections (with passwords, if you choose) on your account, encrypted, and open them with a double-click on any computer or phone.

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Saved remote desktops

When you connect to a computer (from Devices or with Connect to a computer), keep Save to my remote desktops ticked. It appears under My saved remote desktops on every computer and phone you sign in on. Double-click it (or press ▶) to connect.

Videos: Saved remote desktops and one common password · Saved SSH connections in Terminal Sync.

  • Your own workspace’s computers start straight away.
  • Other computers use their saved password, or your common password (below). Tick Also save this password (unattended passwords only, encrypted) when you connect with an unattended password. One-time access codes change, so they are never saved.
  • The ⋮ menu: Rename, Save a password / Change or forget password, Remove.

One password for all my remote desktops

Instead of a password per computer, set one common password in Settings → Saved connections → Set a common password (your account password is needed to set, change or remove it).

  1. Connect to each computer once with its own key: its unattended password, or its access code with the person there pressing Allow (View only doesn’t count).
  2. From then on your common password opens that computer too, and a double-click connects straight away.
  3. Change it in Settings and every one of those computers takes the new password; Remove takes it off them all.
Good to know: The computer’s owner sees it under the computer’s unattended passwords as “Common · your email” and can delete it.

Saved SSH connections (Terminal Sync)

  1. Open Terminal Sync → Add SSH connection (app: My SSH connections → Add). Enter a Name, Host, Port, User name and Password, keep Save the password on my account (encrypted) ticked, and pick Open from: the computer of yours that connects (it needs to reach the server).
  2. Double-click the connection. A new Terminal Sync shell opens on that computer, runs ssh and types the saved password for you. The tab is named after the connection.
  3. The password is never shown on screen or kept in the scroll-back. Use a key file instead by filling in Key file on the computer.

It is a normal Terminal Sync shell: it keeps running when you close the window, you can reattach from any device, share it, and Session Monitor alerts you if an AI agent working over that SSH stops.

How it’s kept safe

  • Names, hosts, IDs, user names and passwords are stored encrypted (AES-256-GCM); a database copy shows none of them.
  • Lists never contain passwords. A password is only handed to your own account right before connecting, and each use is in your audit log.
  • Every sign-in needs a second step (sign-in codes).
  • Don’t want any of it kept? Settings → Saved connections: turn off Save my remote desktops on my account or Save my SSH connections and passwords on my account. Everything saved for it is deleted immediately.

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