RedBar0n wrote on 2003-07-17: > Hi List, > > I'm trying to monitor my user, I'm testing "screen". > > I can connect to the same user (if I started screen for user foo and > then I login in a second session as foo I can connect to the first > foo session), but this thing can't work if I "su - foo" ( I get an > error "Cannot open your terminal '/dev/pts/0' - please check" , > prs/0 is my current tty), so I changing the permission to "777" on > this device, but I believe that there is more elegant way to do this > ( connect to user session as root without "su, chmod 777 > /dev/pst/XXX etc...) > > P.S if there is more efficient/secure way to monitor users and help > them, please advise me :-) > Perhaps the `dtach` program can help. It only handles the connection of programs to terminals, without any VT emulation, so you'll need to run from a terminal of the same kind as your user (e.g. both xterms). It does work for multiple simultaneous connections, last time I checked.
I don't understand pts permissions but it seems from you description that you try to connect first, then su, try the other way around. -- Beni Cherniavsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> If I don't hack on it, who will? And if I don't GPL it, what am I? And if it itches, why not now? [With apologies to Hilel ;] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
