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626526: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=626526
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: screen
Version: 4.0.3-11+lenny1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
When running screen under user1 account with multiuser mode enabled and acl
permissions to allow access for user2, screen fails to execute a command in
this session:
$ screen -x user1/sessname
# ^ this works ok
$ screen -x user2/sessname -X echo "xxx"
Cannot opendir /var/run/screen/S-user2: Permission denied
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.8
APT prefers oldstable
APT policy: (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-xen-686 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages screen depends on:
ii libc6 2.7-18lenny7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libncursesw5 5.7+20081213-1 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libpam0g 1.0.1-5+lenny1 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
screen recommends no packages.
screen suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
Version: 5.0.1-1
This bug has been resolved in screen 5.0.1-1.
--- End Message ---
