Just out of curiosity, if you have access to the root console, is that 
the same thing as having root access?

Drek

J T wrote:
> There is a reason why the tty is owned by the user and with specific
> permissions. Changing this is basically allowing any user on the system
> access to the screen.
>
> If you do make these changes, there will be security implications.
>
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 1:33 PM, Crazy Canucks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
>
>   
>> I figured out what my problem was.  I needed to "screen -r xxx" as the
>> user I started the screen as.  Anyway, I wrote a simple script that
>> chmods /dev/pts/0 to 666 then su's the "screen -r" command.  Works
>> perfectly.
>>
>> Had nothing to do with su, as usual with my problems with Linux, it was
>> permissions and ignorance....  :)
>>
>> Drek
>>
>> Anthal wrote:
>>     
>>> Why not just create a user, like l4d, and run the process from that
>>> account. Whenever you need to re-attach, just su to l4d, and 'screen -r
>>> $game' (whatever $game may be)
>>>
>>> Crazy Canucks wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> I use su to run screen to run my servers under a different user, and I
>>>> nice the process.  It works well, but when I do this I am unable to
>>>> reattach to the console.  Does anyone have any suggestions on how I
>>>> could get around this problem?
>>>>
>>>> These are the relevant lines from my startup script:
>>>>
>>>> server_command="screen -A -m -d -S $game ./$game"_run" -tos -game $mod
>>>> +map `cat ./$mod/starting_map` +maxplayers $server_size -heapsize
>>>> $heap_size +ip 192.168.0.101 -pidfile $game.pid
>>>>         
>> -debug$extra_config_options"
>>     
>>>> nice -n -20 su -c "$server_command" cc-server
>>>>
>>>> It may look a bit complicated, but I think the variable names make it
>>>> pretty clear what is going on.
>>>>
>>>> Drek
>>>>
>>>> P.S.:  I'm a Linux nub, so go easy on me... ;)
>>>>
>>>> Ronny Schedel wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>>>> Hi, i am now using screen to start my server as daemon.
>>>>>> But i know that professional hosters uses diferent ways.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> i have reasons to think that screen is freezing my servers.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> so... How do you start your server?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>             
>>>>> With screen. No, screen does not freeze your servers, plugins do.
>>>>>
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