Re: screen-4.6.0 regression: within su: Cannot open your terminal '/dev/pts/14' - please check

Hi Andrew,

thanks for report.
I will check it now.


Cheers,
Alex

On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 1:31 PM, Andrew Savchenko <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I often use screen within su - username sessions, so that active
> terminal (e.g. xterm) is owned by a user different from one using
> su, e.g.:
>
> su - test
> screen
>
> This worked fine before 4.6.0 (up to 4.5.1), with 4.6.0 I have:
>
> $ su - test
> $ screen
> Cannot open your terminal '/dev/pts/14' - please check.
>
> /dev/pts/14 is indeed not owned by user test, but this way screen
> have worked fine for as long as I can remember, so this access
> should not be mandatory.
>
> Any way to return the old behaviour?
>
> Best regards,
> Andrew Savchenko
>
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