Bug 446049

Summary: Screen multiuser mode broken
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Vasile Chelban <vchelban>
Component: screenAssignee: Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Fixed In Version: 4.0.3-10.fc8 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Vasile Chelban 2008-05-12 12:13:43 UTC 
Description of problem:
After update to screen-4.0.3-9.fc8, multiuser mode could not be used.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
screen-4.0.3-9.fc8

How reproducible:
In order to use screen multiuser mode, screen executable must be suid root. 
Otherwise, screen print message 'Must run suid root for multiuser support' and 
exits. After setting suid on /usr/bin/screen, screen starts and exits 
imediately, in xterm's title will be message: 
Cannot open /dev/pts/8: Permission denied


Steps to Reproduce:
1. chmod u+s /usr/bin/screen
2. chmod 755 /var/run/screen (required by screen)
3. screen
  
Actual results:
Screen exists imediately with message 'Cannot open /dev/pts/8: Permission 
denied'

Expected results:
Screen should open new shell

Additional info:
Previous version (4.0.3-8) works as expected.
Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2008-05-16 11:06:23 UTC 
screen-4.0.3-10.fc8 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 8
Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2008-05-16 11:06:55 UTC 
screen-4.0.3-12.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9
Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2008-05-29 02:51:34 UTC 
screen-4.0.3-10.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2008-05-29 02:52:06 UTC 
screen-4.0.3-12.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.