{"id":129,"date":"2012-04-16T19:10:50","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T17:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jcoder.me\/blog\/?p=129"},"modified":"2012-04-16T19:10:50","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T17:10:50","slug":"screen-for-normal-linux-user-not-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcoder.me\/blog\/2012\/04\/16\/screen-for-normal-linux-user-not-working\/","title":{"rendered":"screen for normal linux user not working, but…"},"content":{"rendered":"

While playing with a development server at work, we just came across an error message like this:<\/p>\n

Cannot open your terminal '\/dev\/pts\/0' - please check.<\/pre>\n
So, there seemed to be rights-related problem, and searching the web brings up quite a lot of forum entries about this topic, with maily this two solutions:<\/p>\n
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  1. open screen as root<\/code> and then sudo<\/code> to user<\/li>\n
  2. make \/dev\/pts\/0<\/code> writable for the user<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    I didn’t want to try the first one, because that might allow the user to fall back to root, so I tried the second one. At first it worked, but when I completely closed the user’s session, \/dev\/pts\/0<\/code> seemed to be gone, and the next try failed again, so it’s not a permanent solution.<\/p>\n
    The solution <\/strong>(that worked for me)<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n
    But finally I came across another solution that worked like a charme: you just need to SSH onto the machine directly with the desired user, and then it’s no problem to open a screen<\/code>.<\/p>\n
    In our previous tries we had logged in as root<\/code> and then sudo<\/code>ed to the user, which caused this problem. Maybe I’ll investigate some alternatives or eventually more in-depth information about why this works this way, but for now I’m quite happy that we have a working solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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