Problem using screen: Cannot open your terminal '/dev/pts/0' - please check.

plugwash · 01-10-2012, 06:33 PM

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Originally Posted by trickykid

As the owner and user of the pts, simply allow others read/write access by chmodding it..

Better to chown than chmod. If you chmod you will give all users access to the terminal. If you chown you will only give the user you chown to access.

So the procedure would go

find the name of your terminal (ps should tell you)
chown it to the user who you want to run screen as
su to the user who you want to run screen as
use screen as normal.

hip0d · 03-21-2012, 05:26 PM

I didn't know about screen -d -m. I've just faced the same issue and didn't looked at this thread, so I wrote an article suggesting, few solutions. The article is thoroughfully explaining the cause of the problem and goes through the problem. So believe for newbies stumbling on the same issue it will be a good read. Check it out here - http://www.pc-freak.net/blog/how-to-...-please-check/

best,
Georgi

sneg · 12-17-2013, 12:23 PM

From this article Solve screen error "Cannot open your terminal '/dev/pts/0' - please check"

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Do not chmod the virtual terminal device like suggested at (way too many) places around the interwebs. This gives other users read and write access to the terminal session!

that actually causes security vulnerabilty.

Also there is a good tip that helped me to solve this issue: run under newUser

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script /dev/null

to own the shell, then try

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screen

again

lleb · 06-17-2014, 07:52 PM

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Originally Posted by stefaandk

Yeah indeed, if I login with the user immediately through SSH it seems to work.

I had logged in as root and then su'ed to it.

Cheers

maybe a bit old, but this just solved my exact same error with screen. interesting i typically log into my server under my personal account, then su were ever i need to go. i just created a new user to use as a minecraft server user. so log in as me, su -l that user, screen... error. no love. log out, ssh in as that new user, screen works. thanks.