Re:Show HN: Assist – Instant terminal sharing from anywhere
by gsundeep on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @03:47AM
(#21268024)
Great idea! “assist -r” should trigger a read-only mode.
We will add this feature soon - please send us an email ([email protected]) if you’d like to be notified when it’s ready. Thanks!
Re:Show HN: Assist – Instant terminal sharing from anywhere
by javerikr on Friday October 18, 2019 @04:25PM
(#21294806)
You may also want to consider allowing the user to specify whether the default is read-only mode or read/write. In similar applications such as http://join.me, the default behavior is similar to a read-only mode.
Re:Show HN: Assist – Instant terminal sharing from anywhere
by discordance on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @07:11AM
(#21269105)
Yeah I was thinking about that... Can the remote person do this:
assist scp $HOME/.ssh/id_rsa.pub [email protected]/user/downloads
Re:Show HN: Assist – Instant terminal sharing from anywhere
by samsharps on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @09:29AM
(#21270095)
Yeah the remote person can do whatever they want. They can definitely also hide what they're trying to do without much effort. The idea is to use this only with people who you would give physical access to anyways. I do really like the idea of a read-only mode with a way to suggest commands as a way to open this up to more use cases.
I could use this in a lot more places if the assister could see my screen/output and propose commands for me to run, but I was still in control of what commands are executed. (i.e. if I could safely use this as part of the customer support process for my customers, I would be extremely willing to pay for it).