screen
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Why Screen?
Screen virtualizes the terminal environment. This means that can disconnect and reconnect to a terminal as well as have multiple people connected to the same terminal for pairing.
Setup
/var/run/screen must have 755 permissions -sudo chmod 755 /var/run/screen/bin/screen must be set uid root -
sudo chmod +s /usr/bin/screen
Permissions
setup your ~/.screenrc to resemble:
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Modify the user list as appropriate
Using Screen
- screen - starts screen session
- ctrl-a d - Detaches screen session
- screen -r - resume screen session
- screen -d -r - detach screen session and reattach here
- screen -x username/ - connect to another user's screen session, if you have permission
