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I am logged in via ssh int a foreign Linux box, and the owner want to assist me from tty1. I tried to convince him to log also in and share a screen with me.

He insists he want to assist me from tty1. Is there a way to make a screen with a console and a terminal ?

I want to explain a bit more . A tty is a native terminal device, the back-end is either hardware or kernel emulated.

A pty (pseudo terminal device) is a terminal device which is emulated by an other program (example: xterm, screen, or ssh are such programs).

My question is if I can make somehow to share a session with a tty in the way we share sessions on screen.

Max Muster
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You can share a screen session from multiple terminals with the -x parameter. It doesn't matter what kind of terminal it is.

  1. Log in via SSH

  2. Start screen

    screen

  3. Log in on another terminal with the same user

  4. Start screen and attach it to the existing session

    screen -x

Now both terminals have the same session, both can see and type.

Gerald Schneider
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  • and how can I do it if I cannot log in from tty1 because I am not there? can I attach the session without being at tty? – Max Muster Jan 15 '20 at 13:35