ouziel-slama
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11 months ago I'm not completely finished yet but almost. Here is the most generic solution I found:
On all hosts and the thinclient there are two mini bash services that use netcat:
- the first listens on localhost:5556 and copies the messages it receives into the clipboard.
- the second monitors the clipboard and when new content is copied (e.g. when the user does a ctrl-c) it sends it to localhost:5557.
Then just open a double tunnel with a host:
[thinclient]$ ssh <host> -R 5557:localhost:5556 -L 5557:localhost:5556 -NSo that when the clipboard is updated on the host, the content is directly sent to the thinclient and vice versa.
It's a little more complicated to implement than explained but it works well :)
Also with this new system it should be easier to open a confirmation window when the user does a ctrl-c: "Do you want to share this content with the thinclient and other hosts?" and a “don’t ask again” checkbox.
With VNC only works inside an application.