let somebody watch my actions over the network

Pieter de Goeje pieter at degoeje.nl
Mon Jan 15 10:20:01 UTC 2007


On Sunday 14 January 2007 11:28, Dino Vliet wrote:
> So basically, if I login through ssh, he wants to sit
> behind the machine and see what actions I'm doing. And
> because we talk over skype, we could have this whole
> interactin going on while I'm configuring his machine.
>
> How could I accomplish something like this? Does
> anyone have an idea?
> Two tools come to my mind, screen and nxserver but
> still I don't have a clue how to accomplish this.
> Hope someone can point me in a good direction.
screen(1) would be perfect. Start a screen session, and let him connect to it 
with 'screen -x'.

- Pieter


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