ssh sessions

[TODComp]

is there anyway i can view someone else's ssh session on my linux box? I'm running mandrake 10.0

[originel]

Why would you want to do that? trying to spy on someone ? You could always SSH to the same place that the other person is SSHing into if you want access to the same system.

[GroundZero3]

ssh is encrpyted, im not sure there is a way to review what is being sent.

[krohnjw]

If you have access to the local machine (which it sounds like you do), there are various programs to *share* the shell. However, this, in the instances that I have used it, require it to be end user initiated. If this is what you are looking for, then kibitz is the program you will want to look at. Screen also contains this functionality.

The other thing you could do is just restrict the user to only 1 shell, and tail -f the history file, if you want to see a running history of commands issued. This is useless though for seeing anything that is not a command.

[VHockey86]

what do you mean by "view"? Trying to see everything they type into the shell? This wouldnt exactly be live monitoring, but if you have access to their user directory you could view their .bash_history file (Assuming they are using bash), and it would show the last 50 or so commands they typed. The amount stored depends on the bashrc file.