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From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
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Subject: Re: Terminal mirror, mirror terminal
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On Tue, 17 Nov 2015 22:47:32 -0700, markham breitbach wrote:
> sudo watch -W {his pty/n}
>                          ^----- you can glean this from output of w
> 
> This will give you write permission to his terminal, or you can have him
> watch {your pty/n}

I have read "man watch" and tried a few things - it's really
versatile and still easy to use (for a not-so-technical user).
I'm even going to automate this a little bit (get terminal
id via "tty", start "mirroring xterm", display "press ^G when
done" message when done, and so on). The only thing that's a
bit annoying is the use of "sudo", but well, that's not a big
deal as sudo has been properly configured.




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Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...