Re: [gentoo-user] viewing consoles remotely

[Iain Buchanan]

On Sat, 2006-06-03 at 10:04 +0200, Jure Varlec wrote:
> On Friday 02 June 2006 06:57, Ryan Tandy wrote:
> > Multi-user mode.  Only works as root, regardless of who started the screen.
>
> AFAIK suid root is enough. Using it depends on your approach to security
> though :) .

Thanks for the tip, I didn't know screen could do that.  For those
interested, I had to:

1. sudo chmod u+s /usr/bin/screen
2. sudo chmod 755 /var/run/screen
3. screen -r sessionowner/[[pid.]tty[.host]]

and that's it!  I could use it as a simple "talk", and also to see what
was going on - great!
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Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>

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