If you work in IT and need to share your screen with a colleague, there are some options in most communication programs to share your screen. But the screen is compressed, and typing on an xterm really unreadable.
Now to share your session, as seen in the link below, you not only can chgrp, but also setfacl a socket file to give another userid access. This way you can add a bunch of people.
Good points:
Bad points:
Now to share your session, as seen in the link below, you not only can chgrp, but also setfacl a socket file to give another userid access. This way you can add a bunch of people.

Sharing Linux Terminal Sessions With Tmux and Screen
Tmux and GNU Screen are well-known utilities which allow multiplexing of virtual consoles. Using either, it is possible to start a session, detach, m...
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Good points:
- At any point in time, somebody else can select and copy the text to the clipboard.
- You can kick selected people out
- Collaborative! No need to grab the keyboard and type as with side-by-side code review.
- One cursor
- High-res! You font and colors because you do not send images, you send real characters, which get rendered on each screen as configured.
- tmux is a standalone binary
- screen is installed on the Pandora
Bad points:
- Others can type in too. Even in between... and read-only is on voluntary basis in screen, and totally rw in tmux
- You must have your screen about the same size, or the screen is truncated (edit: as @PowerGod pointed out: It's resized to the smallest common screensize).
- screen needs suid bit
- tmux is not on the Pandora (but might be compiled to have it)
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