Questions tagged [mosh]
(Mobile Shell) - Mosh is a replacement for SSH which uses SSH to initiate the connection and UDP for later communication in order to support roaming and intermittent connectivity
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Using mosh with SSH jump hosts
I have a reverse SSH tunnel setup between bigbox and jump so that I can login into bigbox from where ever (it is behind a firewall) by using jump as a middle man. This works fine: I just ssh bigbox ...
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Unable to make mosh work when ufw is enabled [closed]
I have a RPi running ArchLinux where I can login with mosh when ufw is disabled, but it doesn't work when it's enabled. This is my ufw setup: ❯ sudo ufw status numbered Status: active To ...
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Why mosh can stay login even when you changed your network situation?
I knew this app in another question on Unix SE. And it says: Change IP. Stay connected. Mosh automatically roams as you move between Internet connections. Use Wi-Fi on the train, Ethernet in ...
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Don't nest tmux in a remote ssh shell
I've set up the .zshrc of my user account on all of the hosts to which I connect to automatically start tmux on login as long as it's not already running. if [ -z "$TMUX" ]; then tmux attach -d || ...
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File transfer over mosh
I am using mosh for my regular terminal based activities. However I have also remote file sever access (via sftp) in nautilus. (I am using Ubuntu 16.10 with unity). (In nautilus, in the URL bar, I ...
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How do you keep systemd user services alive over mosh?
I have a few services (such as syncthing) set up as user-level systemd services on my Arch machine. They work great when I ssh in, but when I connect using mosh, they seem to start and then ...
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mosh-server needs a UTF-8 native locale to run
I am trying to connect from my Gentoo to RHEL server. Both have mosh installed, however I get this error: petanb@localhost ~/Documents $ mosh root@server mosh-server needs a UTF-8 native locale to ...
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Does mosh save bandwidth?
The mobile shell claims many benefits, especially with mobile connections. Many mobile plan prices scale with the amount of data transferred. So I wonder whether I can use Mosh to cut down in data ...
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