From 934e3df5906a0dc0728961b6635abe72d868e5e9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pierre-Yves Chibon Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 11:16:00 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Add how to share a tmux session between users Signed-off-by: Pierre-Yves Chibon --- share_tmux_session.md | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+) create mode 100644 share_tmux_session.md diff --git a/share_tmux_session.md b/share_tmux_session.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6dc0895 --- /dev/null +++ b/share_tmux_session.md @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +# How to share a tmux session accross users? + +It can be handy to share a tmux session between different user accounts, for +example to allow a someone to look over your shoulder while you work on +something. + +To do this, we need to have a folder with group permission shared between the +two persons. + +In the Fedora infrastructure we can easily use the ``fi-apprentice`` group for +this. + +So we have created the folder: + +* /var/tmux/shared which is writable to the fi-apprentice group + + +You can then create a tmux session using: + +:: + + tmux -S /var/tmux/shared new -s + +And the other person(s) can join it using: + +:: + + tmux -S /var/tmux/shared att -t