Terminal Sessions

What a Terminal Session Is

A terminal session gives you an interactive shell on the remote workstation — the same kind of prompt you would get by opening a terminal on the machine itself. Your usual shell and command-line tools are available, so you can run builds, manage processes, edit config files, and troubleshoot without leaving the Wihaister client.

Each session runs as a separate shell process on the workstation, inside the same end-to-end encrypted tunnel as the rest of your session.

Opening a Session

1. Connect to the workstation.
2. Open the terminal view in the client.
3. A shell starts on the workstation and appears in the client.

On the workstation side no additional setup is needed — sessions are created on demand over the tunnel.

Working with Sessions

• You can open multiple sessions and switch between them; each keeps its own working directory and process list
• Sessions are independent — a long-running command in one session does not block the others
• Keyboard input, scrolling, and selection behave like a local terminal

Security

Everything you type and every byte of output travels through your encrypted tunnel. Terminal traffic is never sent in plaintext, and relay servers used for fallback routing can only forward encrypted bytes.