From: pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald) Subject: Re: A few misc questions, and a thank you Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 20:03:09 GMT
In article <andrewc.725878612@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au> andrewc@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew J. Cosgriff !) writes:
>ah200@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Randy Beiter) writes:
>
>>Question/problem #1: I grabbed screen3.2 patched for linux, got it compiled
>> using the .a file that is graciously included,
>> since gcc barfed all over the source :) and root
>> can run it fine, however, any non-root user gets
>> told the /tmp/.screens dir needs to be mode 777,
>> and when I set it this way, it says there are no
>> pty's free, and exits. When I run screen as root,
>> it always demands the /tmp/.screens dir be 755,
>> and as long as it is, screen is content when
>> run under root. Any ideas what could be causing
>> this? My guess is some permissions messed up
>> somewhere, but I can't find where :)
>Yeah, same happens to me.
>I don't use screen anymore, but it occurred to me that this was perhaps if you
>changed screen to be setuid root, which seems like a possible security hole, but...
The next release of SLS will have screen, which does work, both suid and not.
Other features include rcs, term, lpr, cpio, sysv init, revised tcpip install,
etc.
Won't be till after 1.0 is out though :-)
Peter