# Running julia over ssh

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/running-julia-over-ssh/36447
**Category:** General Usage
**Created:** [March 24, 2020, 1:54pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/running-julia-over-ssh/36447 "2020-03-24T13:54:02Z")
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### Author: ![atteson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/91b2a8/32.png) [@atteson](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/atteson)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2020, 1:54pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/running-julia-over-ssh/36447/1 "2020-03-24T13:54:02Z")

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If I run julia over ssh:

```julia
ssh user@host julia -i

```

it doesn’t seem to give me prompts, though it does respond to commands, even though I passed the -i “interactive” option. Is there any way I can get it to do this?

I’d also be interested in colors which don’t seem to appear.

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### Author: ![tkluck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tkluck/32/15769_2.png) [@tkluck](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/tkluck)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2020, 2:12pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/running-julia-over-ssh/36447/2 "2020-03-24T14:12:10Z")

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I didn’t test this, but it’s probably related to whether a pseudo-terminal is allocated. What happens if you try

```nohighlight
ssh -t user@host julia

```

? I don’t think you’ll need the `-i`.

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### Author: ![anon94023334](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@anon94023334](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/anon94023334)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2020, 4:37pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/running-julia-over-ssh/36447/3 "2020-03-24T16:37:11Z")

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I can confirm that `ssh -t` works:

```julia
seth@hydrogen:~ $ ssh -t red julia
Enter passphrase for key '/home/seth/.ssh/id_rsa': 
               _
   _ _ _(_)_ | Documentation: https://docs.julialang.org
  (_) | (_) (_) |
   _ _ _| |_ __ _ | Type "?" for help, "]?" for Pkg help.
  | | | | | | |/ _` | |
  | | |_| | | | (_| | | Version 1.2.0 (2019-08-20)
 _/ |\ __'_|_|_|\__'_| | Official https://julialang.org/ release
|__/ |
julia> 1 + 2
3

```

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### Author: ![atteson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/91b2a8/32.png) [@atteson](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/atteson)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2020, 5:29pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/running-julia-over-ssh/36447/4 "2020-03-24T17:29:28Z")

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That’s perfect. Thanks!