Root sending messages to users
 

The wife uses one computer, I use another. We are both connected to
the internet via a router, as such we can SSH into one another's
boxen. Is there a way to pop up a message on the wife's machine, by
SSHing in and having root access. We both use KDE 3.x if it matters. I
notice that when I shutdown her machine remotely, she gets a popup
message stating that the computer is going down, so I see that the
basic infrastructure of having root pop up messages to users is in
place.

Thanks in advance.

Dotan Cohen

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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

Root sending messages to users
 

On Tuesday 17 June 2008 00:24, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> The wife uses one computer, I use another. We are both connected to
> the internet via a router, as such we can SSH into one another's
> boxen. Is there a way to pop up a message on the wife's machine, by
> SSHing in and having root access. We both use KDE 3.x if it matters.
> I notice that when I shutdown her machine remotely, she gets a popup
> message stating that the computer is going down, so I see that the
> basic infrastructure of having root pop up messages to users is in
> place. [...]

Hi,

you can use the standard "xmessage" program to open a pop-up containing
the message of your choice in X Window. To make this work the user who
wants to show the message must be allowed access to the X display
belonging to the user on whose screen the message has to appear.

Best regards,

Alfredo


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Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@gmail.com> wrote:
DC> The wife uses one computer, I use another. We are both connected to
DC> the internet via a router, as such we can SSH into one another's
DC> boxen. Is there a way to pop up a message on the wife's machine, by
DC> SSHing in and having root access. We both use KDE 3.x if it matters. I

does no one use 'talk' anymore?

lish "i never realized
crank@got.net ignoring him was an option." -sp


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On 17 Jun 2008 04:01:26 GMT, i'll teach you to turn away. <crank@got.net> wrote:
> Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@gmail.com> wrote:
> DC> The wife uses one computer, I use another. We are both connected to
> DC> the internet via a router, as such we can SSH into one another's
> DC> boxen. Is there a way to pop up a message on the wife's machine, by
> DC> SSHing in and having root access. We both use KDE 3.x if it matters. I
>
> does no one use 'talk' anymore?
>
> lish "i never realized
> crank@got.net ignoring him was an option." -sp
>
>

Hey,
Talking is a viable option, though less convenient depending on the
distance between the computers. My brother and I used to chat over
msn/gtalk despite being in the same house. A normal use case was
sending a link then going to his room to show/chat about the page.
Without the initial step then either I'd have to go get him and bring
him back to my pc or take up more time trying to navigate back to the
same page.
You could always setup your own internal chat server or join up to
one of the mainstream ones, though xmessage may fulfill the need as
`echo "hey"|xmessage -nearmouse -file -` is simple enough.

cheers,
Owen.


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Owen Townend wrote:
> On 17 Jun 2008 04:01:26 GMT, i'll teach you to turn away. <crank@got.net> wrote:
>> Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@gmail.com> wrote:
>> DC> The wife uses one computer, I use another. We are both connected to
>> DC> the internet via a router, as such we can SSH into one another's
>> DC> boxen. Is there a way to pop up a message on the wife's machine, by
>> DC> SSHing in and having root access. We both use KDE 3.x if it matters. I
>>
>> does no one use 'talk' anymore?
>>
>> lish "i never realized
>> crank@got.net ignoring him was an option." -sp
>>
>>
>
> Hey,
> Talking is a viable option, though less convenient depending on the
> distance between the computers. My brother and I used to chat over
> msn/gtalk despite being in the same house. A normal use case was
> sending a link then going to his room to show/chat about the page.
> Without the initial step then either I'd have to go get him and bring
> him back to my pc or take up more time trying to navigate back to the
> same page.
> You could always setup your own internal chat server or join up to
> one of the mainstream ones, though xmessage may fulfill the need as
> `echo "hey"|xmessage -nearmouse -file -` is simple enough.
>
> cheers,
> Owen.
>
>
My housemates and I use msn for talking crap, and my irc network for
shouting abuse at each other in a more readable way.

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On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 02:41:50PM +1000, Owen Townend <owen.townend@gmail.com> was heard to say:
> On 17 Jun 2008 04:01:26 GMT, i'll teach you to turn away. <crank@got.net> wrote:
> > Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@gmail.com> wrote:
> > DC> The wife uses one computer, I use another. We are both connected to
> > DC> the internet via a router, as such we can SSH into one another's
> > DC> boxen. Is there a way to pop up a message on the wife's machine, by
> > DC> SSHing in and having root access. We both use KDE 3.x if it matters. I
> >
> > does no one use 'talk' anymore?
> >
> > lish "i never realized
> > crank@got.net ignoring him was an option." -sp
> >
> >
>
> Hey,
> Talking is a viable option, though less convenient depending on the
> distance between the computers. My brother and I used to chat over

I think he means talk(1).

Package: talk
State: not installed
Version: 0.17-13
Description: Chat with another user
Talk is a visual communication program which copies lines from your
terminal to that of another user.

In order to talk locally, you will need to install the talkd package.


Daniel


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On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 01:24:45AM +0300, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@gmail.com> was heard to say:
> The wife uses one computer, I use another. We are both connected to
> the internet via a router, as such we can SSH into one another's
> boxen. Is there a way to pop up a message on the wife's machine, by
> SSHing in and having root access. We both use KDE 3.x if it matters. I
> notice that when I shutdown her machine remotely, she gets a popup
> message stating that the computer is going down, so I see that the
> basic infrastructure of having root pop up messages to users is in
> place.

Aside from the suggestions you've gotten from other people: the
program that's sending that message is probably write(1).

Daniel


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On 17/06/2008, Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 02:41:50PM +1000, Owen Townend <owen.townend@gmail.com> was heard to say:
>
> > On 17 Jun 2008 04:01:26 GMT, i'll teach you to turn away. <crank@got.net> wrote:
> > > Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > DC> The wife uses one computer, I use another. We are both connected to
> > > DC> the internet via a router, as such we can SSH into one another's
> > > DC> boxen. Is there a way to pop up a message on the wife's machine, by
> > > DC> SSHing in and having root access. We both use KDE 3.x if it matters. I
> > >
> > > does no one use 'talk' anymore?
> > >
> > > lish "i never realized
> > > crank@got.net ignoring him was an option." -sp
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Hey,
> > Talking is a viable option, though less convenient depending on the
> > distance between the computers. My brother and I used to chat over
>
>
> I think he means talk(1).
>
> Package: talk
> State: not installed
> Version: 0.17-13
> Description: Chat with another user
> Talk is a visual communication program which copies lines from your
> terminal to that of another user.
>
> In order to talk locally, you will need to install the talkd package.
>
>
>
> Daniel
>
>

ehem, right, sorry.

cheers,
Owen.


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Thanks, all. xmessage seems to work fine for popping up simple
one-liners, which is exactly what I had wanted to do. talk and write
may be of use in the future, however. Thanks.

Dotan Cohen

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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

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Am 2008-06-17 01:24:45, schrieb Dotan Cohen:
> The wife uses one computer, I use another. We are both connected to
> the internet via a router, as such we can SSH into one another's
> boxen. Is there a way to pop up a message on the wife's machine, by
> SSHing in and having root access. We both use KDE 3.x if it matters. I
> notice that when I shutdown her machine remotely, she gets a popup
> message stating that the computer is going down, so I see that the
> basic infrastructure of having root pop up messages to users is in
> place.


From your machine you could do a:

> ssh root wife-machine -c 'su - wife -c"echo "I will kill your machine NOW! |xmessage -display :0.0 -file -" && shutdown -r now'

or:

apt-get install linpopup

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