I think it was screen. A former student has convinced me that the guy had me ssh to his machine to get around our school firewall. Then he tunneled back to my machine. Apparently, I changed my password to something like "abcd1234" so he could log in as me, join the screen, and then I could follow along.
Wow, I was trusting back then. Of course, the computer wasn't working at all at the time, so I wasn't risking much. Todd On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 8:59 PM, Angus Gratton <g...@projectgus.com> wrote: > On Thu, 7 Jun 2012 20:31:10 -0400 > "Todd O'Bryan" <toddobr...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> When I was first starting with LTSP (9 or 10 years ago?), a kind soul >> from Germany had me connect to his machine and then reconnected back >> to mine so that he could type commands in the terminal while I >> watched. It was the only way I got everything up and running. >> >> Now I'm having my students set up Linux machines at home, and they >> inevitably screw up something by leaving off a slash or a dot or being >> in the wrong directory when they issue some command. It would be >> really convenient to be able to remote-control their terminals, but I >> don't even know what to Google for. >> >> Anyone know of a how-to they could point me to, or what the guy >> probably did so I can search for it? >> >> > > As Rob said, it may be GNU Screen or possibly tmux (in my limited > experience, tmux's way of sharing terminals via Unix sockets is more > pleasant to use than screen's multiuser mode, assuming you're both > logging in as different users not the same user.) > > For what it's worth, there's also reptyr which allows you to grab a tty > even if it wasn't originally started in the screen/tmux environment. > It's a bit black-magic-hack, but it's pretty useful when you need it: > > https://github.com/nelhage/reptyr > > You still need to be able to be logged into the same machine > though. > > - Angus > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Live Security Virtual Conference > Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and > threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions > will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware > threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ > _____________________________________________________________________ > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
