Pairing with Separate Accounts and Sockets
Using tmux’s support for sockets, we can create sessions that multiple users can connect to with ease.
First, let’s 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, we create the “tmux” group and the /var/tmux folder we’ll use to hold the shared sessions.
| | tmux@puzzles$ sudo addgroup tmux |
| | tmux@puzzles$ sudo mkdir /var/tmux |
We change the group ownership of the /var/tmux folder so that our tmux group has access:
| | tmux@puzzles$ sudo chgrp tmux /var/tmux |
Then we alter the permissions on the folder so that new files will be accessible for all members of the tmux group:
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