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GNU screen multiuser mode is broken in OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)

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Problem

I'm using GNU screen for remote pair programming. Let's call the local account for the remote user 'pairpair'. I have the following lines in my : I have run . However, when the remote user tries to connect to my screen with the command I receive the following message: The pid listed in the error me…

Error Output

multiuser on
acladd pairpair

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Fix for: GNU screen multiuser mode is broken in OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)

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I don't know if you're still seeing this, but I am. Screen uses a call to kill() with signal zero to validate PIDs. The cause of the issue is that kill() is unexpectedly failing with errno EPERM. This should only happen if the UID and EUID of the ca…

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