Permission denied when Starting Screen


When you are starting screen, and you are unable to create a screen session, and you have errors like

user1@node1 ~]$ screen
You are not the owner of /var/run/screen/S-user1

Check the permission of /var/run/screen/S-user1 to make sure you own the directory

$ chown user1:user1 /var/run/screen/S-user1

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