Linux – Owner of screen session

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When I logged in a server and issue a 'screen -list' commands it gives the following result – 

31917.pts-5.office      (Detached)
31844.pts-0.office      (Detached)

But it is sometimes important to know who has start the screen session – eg.- as system admin may want to kill some specific screen session and when it's important to know who start the session. Is there any way to know who is initiator/owner of the screen session?

Thanks

Best Answer

The screen -ls | screen -list commands only show you your own screen sessions even for root. As far as I know that's as good as it gets for screen itself.

If you want to see which screen sessions have been started by which users look in each users directory in /var/run/screen/

ls -lR /var/run/screen
/var/run/screen:
total 0
drwx------ 2 iain iain 80 Feb 20 18:14 S-iain
drwx------ 2 root root 60 Feb 20 18:19 S-root

/var/run/screen/S-iain:
total 0
prw------- 1 iain iain 0 Feb 20 18:13 4093.pts-0.host1
prw------- 1 iain iain 0 Feb 20 18:14 4105.pts-0.host1

/var/run/screen/S-root:
total 0
prw------- 1 root root 0 Feb 20 18:19 4128.pts-0.host1
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