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From: net@tub.UUCP (Oliver Laumann)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: screen
Message-ID: <1137@tub.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jan 90 13:12:07 GMT
References: <2895@hub.UUCP> <1990Jan9.212532.14606@pegasus.uucp>
Reply-To: net@tub.UUCP (Oliver Laumann)
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
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In article <1990Jan9.212532.14606@pegasus.uucp> richard@pegasus.UUCP (Richard Foulk) writes:
> Screen does not have to be installed with root priviledges,

Screen must be installed with root privileges (note the spelling) to be
able to chown() newly allocated pseudo-ttys (under BSD and related UNIX
versions only the super-user may invoke the chown() system call).
In addition, it must be granted read/write access to /etc/utmp and read
access to /dev/kmem.

If you do not install it as set-uid with owner root, the basic functionality
will not be affected, but commands like w(1) and talk(1) can produce weird
results.

Regards,
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Oliver Laumann              net@TUB.BITNET              net@tub.UUCP