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[ILUG] Switch to another tty remotely

[ILUG] Switch to another tty remotely

Peter McEvoy pete at yerma.org
Tue May 31 10:22:10 IST 2005


On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 04:43:40PM +0100, Stephen Shirley wrote:
> Conor Daly wrote:
> >ssh <workhost>
> >su - <user_who_started_screen>
> >screen -r
> 
> Actually, this won't work unless user_who_started_screen == root. Screen 
>  needs to be able to change the permissions on the tty (who knows why, 
> i certainly don't, and wish it wouldn't), and the tty is owned by the 
> user you logged in as, so unless you're su-ing to root, 
> user_who_started_screen can't monkey with tty.


chown user `tty`

Obviously you need the requisite permissions to do this.



-- 
Pete



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