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Is it possible to SSH into a shared shell session? I suffer from eye strain/computer vision syndrome and want to use my (jailbreaked) eink Kindle to SSH into a computer but use that host machines keybord for input. So if I type on the hosts keyboard I want the input to appear in the SSH session on my Kindle.

I got the terminal and SSH client working on the Kindle so I only need some solution for the serverside. VNC is a bit messy on todays b/w eink screens so SSH will do.

Any help deeply appreciated as it would allow me to stay in business!

Andreas Bergström
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You can also use a multi-user screen session. The screen utility can be used to view/use a single session with multiple users:

  1. Start a new screen session with a specific name: screen -S sessionname
  2. Open the session on another terminal with screen -x sessionname

You can also do this with different users on the same machine. To do this:

  1. Make screen setuid using chmod u+s /usr/bin/screen
  2. Run screen with screen -s sessionname
  3. Enable multiuser mode with ctrl+a :multiuser on
  4. Allow a different user to connect with ctrl+a :addacl guestuser
  5. As the guest user, use screen -x hostingUserName/sessionname
mtak
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you can use a connection to a server in shared mode. a shell session is running on a machine on a device "tty" or "pty". in that case you use tmux or screen

wkaha
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