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Put a password on your screen session

July 23, 2007 - 1 comment

You can “protect” the access to a screen session.
Don’t use your usual password, as the method used is pretty weak (standard DES)

Open a screen session :

$ screen

Inside the session press “ctrl + a” then type “:password”

If successfully set, you should see [ Password moved into copybuffer ] in the lower left corner of the terminal.

Now you can detach by pressing “ctrl + a” then type “d”
Reattach with “screen -r” from the prompt.

You should be prompted for the session password.

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