screen - Cannot open your terminal '/dev/pts/6' - please check

[Lars Noodén]

I'm checking multiuser mode in screen and getting an error when I try to connect with the second user:

Cannot open your terminal '/dev/pts/6' - please check

screen is SUID. /var/run/screen is 755

The first user's .screenrc contains these lines:

multiuser on
acladd user2

I start the screen session for user1:

screen -S test

and then from user2, I try to connect:

screen -x user1/test

And that's where the error occurs. Multiple sites around the web show that to be the method to run screen with more than one user. e.g. http://www.noah.org/wiki/Screen_note...shared_screens

I could have sworn this used to work in Ubuntu before. What's missing?

[SlugSlug]

Not sure it's the same as my issue Lars, but I have to run

 script /dev/null

before I can resume the screen