reassign 133807 screen severity 257676 minor merge 133807 257676 tags 133807 wontfix thanks
> Screen's manpage also states: > · Screen must be installed as set-uid with owner root on most systems > in order to be able to correctly change the owner of the tty device > file for each window. > > Which is probably why screen fails (screen is setuid utmp, and terminals > don't have the utmp group). I think the above analysis is correct. Then the "bug" should be assigned to screen, then merged, then marked as "wontfix" because the solution is making screen setuid root, which will not happen (it used to be setuid root up to 3.9.4-1 but was changed to setgid utmp after bugs 43909 and 43931) On the shadow package side, I tend to believe in Nicolas analysis and see nothing we could do about this. Hence doing the appropriate bug manipulations. Screen package maintainer, please object if you disagree. You're also entitled to close both bug reports rather than just mark them wontfix, IMHO.
