Bug 667252
| Summary: | screen creates a directory in /var/run/screen that is writable by the user. Is this necessary? | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Daniel Walsh <dwalsh> |
| Component: | screen | Assignee: | Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | rawhide | CC: | mlichvar, redhat-bugzilla, sgrubb |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
| Whiteboard: | |||
| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2011-02-04 15:32:10 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
| Embargoed: | |||
|
Description
Daniel Walsh
2011-01-04 23:05:20 UTC
We could configure screen to use $HOME/.screen directory instead, but then the multiuser feature couldn't be enabled just by adding suid bit to the screen binary. Not sure how many users actually use that and if it's worth keeping /var/run/screen. Also, updating to a screen using a different directory might cause problems for users as new screen won't find the sockets created by old screen. I'm considering update to a 4.1.0 pre snapshot. It uses an incompatible protocol with 4.0.3, so reattaching to old sessions won't be possible anyway and we might as well switch to the $HOME directory and support the multiuser feature only through a spec build-time option. $HOME/.screen is now used in screen-4.1.0-0.1.20101110git066b098.fc15. This was reverted due to bug #676663. |