Shared Telnet

Remek Trzaska

SharedTelnet is a tool designed for supervised collaborative telnet sessions. After pressing the "Shared Telnet" button in TANGO Interactive Session Manager, the name (or IP address) of the host you want to connect to should be entered in the window which will popup. If you are trying to join an existing session of Shared Telnet, just press cancel in the window--the text you enter in this window is just ignored in this case, and you will be connected to the host originally chosen by the session originator.

Granting master privilege to a participant should be preceded by a serious consideration of all possible consequences. This action exactly corresponds to letting somebody use your terminal. If this person abuses your trust irreversible things may happen, such as deletion of your home account, compromising your secrets, to list only a few of them.

The person who initializes Shared Telnet session has a special privilege: she is always able to control keyboard input (for example by pressing backspace key or ^C) to prevent disastrous situations caused by a vicious collaborator. This potentially may lead to the situation when there is just one TANGO master of this session and two de facto masters of Shared Telnet session.


TANGO Interactive support group
Last modified: Mon Mar 8 22:38:51 EST 1999