On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 15:16:28 -0400, German wrote: > after searching, I found the following solution to chmod tty1, like so: > chmod o+rw /dev/tty1 and this worked, I was able to use screen as a > user, however it doesn't stay permanently; after reboot, I got the same > problem. How to chmod tty1 so changes stay permenently? Thanks /dev/tty1 is already group writeable, so you should get the same result by adding your user to the tty group. -- Neil Bothwick A Smith & Weason beats Four Aces everytime.