[HN Gopher] Session recording for Tailscale SSH in beta
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       Session recording for Tailscale SSH in beta
        
       Author : geoffeg
       Score  : 85 points
       Date   : 2023-05-11 17:49 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (tailscale.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (tailscale.com)
        
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       | matthewaveryusa wrote:
       | A very valid use-case not mentioned in the article is to save all
       | your personal terminal interactions to a database so you can
       | search it in the future. Your terminal's input (and output) value
       | per byte is enormous so really everyone should be saving it all.
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       | I'll be horsing around with this tonight -- I hope ts sshing to
       | my local computer will just work so I can get local recording as
       | well without a separate mechanism.
        
         | chrisshroba wrote:
         | I've thought about this too - if you use tmux, you can use
         | `tmux capture-pane` to grab all the output and scrollback in
         | the current window.
        
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       | cordigliere wrote:
       | Seems like a self-hosted asciinema https://asciinema.org/
        
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       | tptacek wrote:
       | This is a deceptively valuable feature for regulated/compliance-
       | trained companies, because a lot of things you want a detailed
       | audit trail for are accessed via shells (most notably: the
       | consoles for app frameworks).
        
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         | liotier wrote:
         | Here at LargeTelco with a legally privileged and regulated
         | safety-critical utility status, absolutely every administrative
         | interaction with a production host goes through a bastion that,
         | on top of enforcing access privileges, also records
         | _everything_. Also, LargeTelco is a complex hell of subnetting.
         | I can very well see the enterprisey attraction of having not
         | just Tailscale's low cost and extraordinary ease, but also
         | session records like it is just a cherry on top !
        
       | blueflow wrote:
       | I use script(1) daily for creating papertrails:
       | script -ec "command args" ~/$(date
       | +%Y-%m-%d-%H%M%S_$$_script.txt)
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       | Works out of the box on almost every *nix system.
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       | The recordings end up as textfiles with the control sequences in,
       | you can use commands like cat -v, grep or less -R on them. If you
       | also record a timing file, you can replay it 1:1 on you terminal.
        
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