The idea would be to setup an internal tmate.io server to make instant command line collaboration easier.
All Linux engineers love the command line and it would be really cool to have an infrastructure tool that
allows spontaneous, low bandwidth, screen sharing.
I did some packaging work on the tmate server part called tmate-slave and the tmate client package
is already present inside the utilities repository. So the effort for this project idea would be straightforward.
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almost 9 years ago by M0ses | Reply
I would like to have such a service also, so I did some preparation:
- I prepared a package for tumbleweed and leap: obs://home:M0ses/tmate-slave
- Leap and Tumbleweed
- Feel free to comment
- tmate-slave only builds against msgpack < 1.0.0 (e.g. 0.5.9)
- known_hosts file might prevent from connecting if you already connect the same host with normal ssh
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almost 9 years ago by dmuhamedagic | Reply
Did you hear about kibitz? It's an old tool providing this functionality, implemented in tcl and expect.
- I prepared a package for tumbleweed and leap: obs://home:M0ses/tmate-slave
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almost 9 years ago by M0ses | Reply
No, never heard about kibitz, but taken from the kibitz man page:
If you start kibitz to user2 on a remote computer, kibitz performs a rlogin to the remote computer with your current username
IMO, a tool using rlogin should not be used anymore.
Advantage I see in tmate:
- it runs as a central service which makes it easy to remember
- easy to use without need of local accounts for both parties on one host (like in case of screen,tmux etc)
- Firewall rules don`t matter, as the host (the user who wants to share a session) has no incomming ssh traffic on his machine
I installed the package on a VM and documented how to try it under http://e144.suse.de
A few things missing, to make it a "real" internal service
- registered DNS-Name (e.g. tmate.suse.de)
- A productive VM (e.g. in cloud.suse.de with SLE 12)
- operational concept ???
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almost 9 years ago by abergmann | Reply
Nice job. The only thing that I've noticed is that only the tmate hostname is shown in the status bar instead of the FQDN.
Did you start the tmate-slave with the -h parameter and the FQDN?
tmate-slave -k /etc/tmate-slave/keys/ -h tmate.suse.de -l /var/log/tmate-slave.log &
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