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No. Multi-user screen does not require root access.

• sofal 17y ago
  According to this article it does: http://magazine.redhat.com/2007/09/27/a-guide-to-gnu-screen/ http://magazine.redhat.com/2007/09/27/a-guide-to-gnu-screen/ It says that I need to be able to run: chmod u+s /usr/bin/screen chmod 755 /var/run/screen Is there a way to bypass that or do I have to install screen in my home directory? I'd like to limit the amount of crap I have to install in ~/. They hardly allow any space on these campus machines.
  • spudlyo 17y ago
    That may have been necessary to get multi-user screen to work with two different users, but you shouldn't have to do that to make it work with two instances of the same user. Depending on your distro and how screen is packaged, it might just work out of the box.