[Gllug] ntalk

[Vincent AE Scott]

Richard Cohen(richard at vmlinuz.org)@Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 10:48:56AM +0000:
> On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Paul Brazier wrote:
> 
> > I'm needing something to enable me to talk to someone when we're both
> > logged in via ssh to a remote server. I've looked at talk/ntalk but it
> > seems (documentation is a bit sparse) that you need portmap running to
> > use it, but I've disabled this for security reasons.
> >
> > Is it risk-free to run portmap if I restrict it totally for local use
> > only or is even this unadvisable (the server is connected directly to
> > the internet)?
> >
> > Also is there some better tool that anyone can recommend that does the
> > same thing? (commandline chatting to someone else logged in to the same
> > server).
> 
> It's not ideal, and it's only any good if you two are the only people on the
> machine, but I've been known to use wall for this :-)

or write

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