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What is the default password of gnu screen?
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Mar 15, 202627652 viewsConfidence Score0%
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When I type Ctrl-X X (sic) in screen, the session is locked. What is the default password? Is it the same password which I use to log in to linux? I ask because: I connect to several different remote linux servers via ssh, under various flavours of linux/unix, and have screen sessions running on al…
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I sometimes find myself in the same situation, on servers where I have SSH public-key login and thus no password at all (that I know), and struggle to remember what I did last time to recover. There is no need to kill the screen. Just disconnect the…
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