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TMUX - Sharing Terminal between Users

2022-07-21

More Often you wouldve come across sharing screens with applications like Teamviewer, Windows Remote Desktop Connection or remmina (if you're a linux user). But if you want to share only your terminal, you can look upto Tmux.

More Often you would've come across sharing screens with applications like Teamviewer, Windows Remote Desktop Connection or remmina (if you're a Linux user). But if you want to share only your terminal, you can look up to Tmux.

Installing Tmux:

apt-get update
apt-get install tmux

Starting a Tmux Session:

tmux new-session

This starts a new tmux session by default with a session-name 0. When you initialize a new session, will be 1 and so on. If you want to start a named session, the command would be

tmux new-session -s <session-name>

Connecting to existing session:

tmux attach -t <session-number>
tmux attach -t <session-name>

The above will only be possible if you're logged in as the same user as one sharing the session.

Using Sockets for different users to connect:

To Start a new session
tmux -S /tmp/socket

Change its permission for other users to access
chmod 777 /tmp/socket

for other users to attach to the session
tmux -S /tmp/socket attach