Let local user watch my ssh while I install gentoo remotely?

jeffk · l33t Joined: 13 Sep 2003 Posts: 671

After much prodding, I have two colleagues who will be installing Gentoo in the next week or so. I'd like to have them boot a livecd, start sshd and let me go through my stage-1 install routine while they view my ssh command activity, for a guided 'lesson'.

It would be great if I could just connect to their console this way, so the commands could be issued by myself or them, as appropriate. Sort of like a VNC for ssh.

Does anyone know of a console broadcaster that would work this way? It only makes sense if it can be used with the environment of a basic LiveCD, and will survive the chroot step of a stage-1 install. Thanks.

EliasP · Posted: Sun Apr 18, 2004 7:56 pm Post subject:

There should be "screen" at the Live-CDs.

1.) Start a screen session by just typing

jeffk · l33t Joined: 13 Sep 2003 Posts: 671

Thanks, I had been reading about screen very recently, nice of them to include it on the livecds.

I presume step '0' is to have the user:
- boot the LiveCD
- change the root password
- /etc/init.d/ssh start
- I then ssh into the box.

Thanks again.