[Telepathy] ssh over telepathy?

Benjamin M. Schwartz bmschwar at fas.harvard.edu
Thu Mar 11 05:43:23 PST 2010


Butrus Damaskus wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Just an Idea: How complicate would it be to allow ssh be "tunneled"
> over telepathy in the same way as the VNC is? The VNC is sometimes
> really slow and ssh would make much more sense...

I have done this in Sugar, a desktop environment that makes heavy use of
Telepathy.

http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2009-May/014165.html

http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/shareterm

The danger of ssh, of course, is that it is read-write.  The other
participant gains all of your privilege over your system.  With VNC, you
have the option of a read-only mode.

--Ben

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