Connect to another terminal session
Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2005 11:52 am
Out of pure curiosity because it looked cool....
Saw someone at work, take remote control of someone's linux terminal session and start typing while the user watched. I'm not talking about VNC, or remote desktop, I know how to do that. It was purely command line, and whatever they did on the remote terminal was also happening on the local one.
Is this making any sense? If it is.... what is it and how do you do it?
Example:
I'm Joe... I log on to my networked linux machine called "Foo", open a console, start typing commands.
Network administrator calls me, wants to connect to my machine to fix something.
Network admin uses SSH to connect to foo and starts working, behind the scenes.
I ask if I can see what he's doing so he connects directly to the console I'm currently working in.
Wow... my hands aren't on the keyboard but someone's typing text in my console and I can follow it exactly.
Saw someone at work, take remote control of someone's linux terminal session and start typing while the user watched. I'm not talking about VNC, or remote desktop, I know how to do that. It was purely command line, and whatever they did on the remote terminal was also happening on the local one.
Is this making any sense? If it is.... what is it and how do you do it?
Example:
I'm Joe... I log on to my networked linux machine called "Foo", open a console, start typing commands.
Network administrator calls me, wants to connect to my machine to fix something.
Network admin uses SSH to connect to foo and starts working, behind the scenes.
I ask if I can see what he's doing so he connects directly to the console I'm currently working in.
Wow... my hands aren't on the keyboard but someone's typing text in my console and I can follow it exactly.