screen

[Nori Heikkinen <nori@sccs.swarthmore.edu>]

hey,

the sysadmins for the server i help maintain are debating installing
screen, and our policy on letting users download and compile it for
their own use.  are there current security risks or bugs that we would
be running, were we to do this?  what's the general feeling on screen
on multi-user (~1500) systems?

also, is there a way to allow the virtual terminal functionality of
screen without allowing unlimited, unmonitored processes?  nohup is
fine for running unmonitored processes, but not for the former
functionality.

thanks,

</nori>

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