CentOS - Aug 2009 - Run GNU screen as a normal user

Hi guys,

I am currently looking for a workaround with regards to running screen
as a normal user.

When I try to run it, I get the following:

[mbaluyos at mla torrents]$ screen
Cannot open your terminal '/dev/pts/0' - please check.

To get around this, I had to chmod 777 /dev/pts/0. It's an insecure
hack so I'm looking for the right way of doing it.

Would anyone be able to guide me as to how I can run screen the way
normal users should run it?

This behavior just seemed to happen with CentOS 5.3. I remember not
running into such issues on an older CentOS/screen version.

Thanks in advance,
Matt

-- 
Stand before it and there is no beginning.
Follow it and there is no end.
Stay with the ancient Tao,
Move with the present.

OK. Got it figured out.

It seemed that it didn't work because I was su'ing to that normal user
when I originally logged in as root.

Apparently, you can only use screen (at least without any workaround)
when you log in as the user you want to run it on.

On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 2:29 AM, Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing
Lists)<matt.baluyos.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I am currently looking for a workaround with regards to running screen
> as a normal user.
>
> When I try to run it, I get the following:
>
> [mbaluyos at mla torrents]$ screen
> Cannot open your terminal '/dev/pts/0' - please check.
>
> To get around this, I had to chmod 777 /dev/pts/0. It's an insecure
> hack so I'm looking for the right way of doing it.
>
> Would anyone be able to guide me as to how I can run screen the way
> normal users should run it?
>
> This behavior just seemed to happen with CentOS 5.3. I remember not
> running into such issues on an older CentOS/screen version.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Matt

-- 
Stand before it and there is no beginning.
Follow it and there is no end.
Stay with the ancient Tao,
Move with the present.