[mosh-users] Feature request - session broadcast

[Quentin Smith]

There's a program out there that's designed for exactly this called 
termcast:

http://noway.ratry.ru/jsn/termcast/

I think it would be cool if Mosh gained this feature as well, but you 
might try it in the meantime.

--Quentin

On Thu, 12 Apr 2012, Rayson Ho wrote:

> Hi Keith,
>
> The idea is that clients (students or anyone on the internet) should
> not get a valid login on the machine. Imagine running a Linux 101
> class over the internet with a home connection.
>
> With this "multiple read-only Mosh clients" architecture, anyone with
> valid read-only access could at most read the session and nothing
> else.
>
> Rayson
>
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> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Keith Winstein <keithw at mit.edu> wrote:
>> Hello Rayson,
>>
>> Do screen or tmux meet your needs in this area?
>>
>> You might just try having one mosh (used by the instructor) start up a
>> tmux session, and then the students can also use mosh to run something
>> like "/usr/bin/tmux -S /tmp/shared attach -r" for a read-only shared
>> window.
>>
>> (See http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2011/11/23/using-tmux-to-share-a-terminal/)
>>
>> That might do the trick without changing mosh itself.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Keith
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 5:23 PM, Rayson Ho <raysonlogin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> While we are on this topic, I think a very useful feature (at least
>>> for software training classes) is session broadcast - ie. allow
>>> read-only clients to hook up to a section. I think the architecture of
>>> Mosh would make this feature easier to implement.
>>>
>>> This way, we can run demos very easily. (Many conference room
>>> projectors do not have enough resolution).
>>>
>>> Rayson
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