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Scoplen

Concepts

Meet each idea only when you need it.

Adding a host asks for an address, a user, and a key. Everything below appears as you go.

  1. First connection

    everyone starts here

    You open Scoplen for the first time.

    Host
    A machine you operate: an address and a name. How you reach it is kept separately.
    Terminal
    A session on a host, in a tab or a split pane.

  2. Daily work

    step 2 of 6

    You open files, keep a tunnel, reuse a key, or connect through another host.

    Login
    A user on a host, with the key or password it uses. Shown as user@host.
    Key
    Listed on its own once you use it for a second host. Hardware keys never leave the device.
    Jump route
    A path through other hosts, reusable for a whole network.
    Tunnel
    A local, remote, or dynamic forward that runs without a terminal.
    Workspace
    Your open tabs and panes, kept so you can return to them.
    Known host key
    What a host proved the first time, and where that trust came from.

  3. Your devices

    step 3 of 6

    You turn on sync with your own server.

    Account
    No password. A new device joins by scanning a code on one you already have.
    Recovery key
    Printed or stored offline once. Without it and without a device, no one can recover your data.

  4. Sharing

    step 4 of 6

    You share a group of hosts with someone else.

    Shared folder
    Hosts and keys shared with chosen people, encrypted for each of them.
    Safety number
    A short code you can compare to be sure you share with the right person.

  5. Organization

    step 5 of 6

    You sign in to your organization.

    Organization hosts
    Hosts your organization manages, visible according to its rules.
    Access request
    Shown only when a connection is not allowed and asking is possible.
    Certificate
    Fetched before connecting and expiring on its own. You see it only in connection details.

  6. Administration

    step 6 of 6

    You run your organization's Scoplen in the web console.

    Access rule
    A group may connect to a host group as a remote user, for a duration, with or without approval.
    Gateway
    A bastion into a private network that can record and end sessions, used only by hosts you assign.
    Host agent
    Keeps trusted certificate authorities and revocations current on a host. It cannot run commands.
    Audit
    A signed, chained record of who was allowed what, and why.