Hi all, I've been using screen for a few months now and I'm loving it. Lately I've been using screen for pair-programming, remote-discussion-debugging. To use it this way, what I've been doing is ssh to the remote box as the user I'm going to discuss with and then we both screen -x.
This, of course, doesn't scale (I need to either know their password or set up ssh key auth as them on the remote box so that I can login as them). It's clearly a hack, and the more people discussing, the more ugly the hack looks. I'd like to switch to using multiuser mode Ctrl-A :multiuser acladd [user] [passwd] etc, so that I can avoid having to login as them. with multiuser, I can create a neutral account, not mine, not theirs. start the screen session, setup the acls, and then everyone can rendezvous. My question involves paranoia though. screen needs to be suid-root for multiuser to work. Does anyone have any opinion on how secure that is? I figure it's probably fine, but if someone has actually looked into the matter and reviewed the security issues or is on the screen mailing list, discussion of that would be great. tiger _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
