Redirecting user's terminal

[Troyan Krastev]

Hi all,

I am looking for a way or software that allows you to see
particular user's terminal ( telnet session).

Thanks
Troy.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

You will find both of these useful...

# who -u

# last

...JRF...

[Vincenzo Restuccia]

Try xterm.

[Pedro Sousa]

You can use 'finger' too (if you have it opened)
good luck.

[Troyan Krastev]

That is ok, but I want to see what exactly the user see on his terminal!

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Troy:

Oh. You can have the user use 'script' capture the terminal output to a file. See the man pages for more details.

...JRF...

[Troyan Krastev]

James thanks for that! If the program the user is started is screen oriented? Can I on-line see his screen?

[Troyan Krastev]

May be I can not explain what exactly I need. Here is an example:
Somebody is using "restricted sam". He doesn't know how to do something
and needs help. I know his /dev/tty and to be able to help him, I want
to take a look at his screen!

[Mark Mitchell]

I would rather PC anywhere but here is a product from Tridia software called double vision.

DoubleVision is full-featured remote control software for character-based UNIX/Linux applications or terminal emulation sessions that permits a remote system to connect to another terminal, (tty or pseudo-tty), and have full access to its screen and keyboard.

[Patrick Wallek · Accepted solution]

There is a product available called Double Vision that will do what you want. The company that produces is called Tridia. http://www.tridia.com

This product works quite well. If you are root you can get to any users telnet session and see exactly what they are doing.

[Fred Martin_1]

We use Double Vision by Tridia - it is exactly what you want, but is not cheap. There's purchase fees then yearly maintenance. And even though you're on maintenance they nail you for "cross-platform upgrades" too. Been there.

Currently I am looking for something cheaper (is there a GNU product?) that does the same thing. So I am interested in hearing other comments here as well.