id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
3268	GNU Screen pty group	Stu	blfs-book@…	"Section 6.6 of the LFS book sets up /etc/group so that tty is gid 4 and tape is gid 5. The GNU Screen source code assumes tty will have gid 5. PTYs created by screen sessions will thus end up with a group of ""tape"" instead of ""tty""--which will manifest itself in subtle ways (like the mesg command from util-linux refusing the change permissions).

The best fix is obviously to update screen's logic to use getpwnam, but short of that this issue can be fixed by adding ""--with-pty-group=4"" to screen's configure step."	defect	closed	normal		BOOK	SVN	medium	fixed