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Pairing with Separate Accounts and Sockets

Using tmux’s support for sockets, you can create sessions that multiple users can connect to with ease.

To test this out, create two new user accounts for the session: one called “ted” and another named “barney.”

tmux@puzzles$ sudo adduser ted

tmux@puzzles$ sudo adduser barney

Next, create the “tmux” group and the /var/tmux folder that will hold the shared sessions.

tmux@puzzles$ sudo addgroup tmux

tmux@puzzles$ sudo mkdir /var/tmux

Next, change the group ownership of the /var/tmux folder so that the tmux group has access:

tmux@puzzles$ sudo chgrp tmux /var/tmux

Then alter the permissions on the folder so that new files will ...