Ashimema's questions

Having updated a users group with usermod -G <grouplist> <user> in one Byobu split, I was hoping to be able to open a new split and have the permissions take effect there.. rather than having to kill the whole Byobu sessions and login shell.

Is there any way around this?

I realise one can do an exec su -l $USER to effectively re-login.. but I'm wondering if there's a way to get this to take effect for all Byobu splits currently in effect.

I've become addicted to Byobu and I've recently shifted from bash to zsh; Now I want to combine the two, however I have a one initial pre-requisite:

I cannot make zsh the default shell for my user as it's a shared account and the rest of the team aren't as zsh happy as I am - That rules out the 'chsh -s /bin/zsh' option.

So, I discovered you can set a default-shell for tmux (which should follow across to byobu right?). That would be perfect as I'm also the only one really using Byobu on the server.

Problem is, I can't work out where to enable this option in the confusion of config files that's created in the tmux/byobu mix.

Any hints?

I've seen elsewhere that scrolling via the mouse wheel (and other mousy events) can be enabled for tmux.. can this feature also be enabled in byobu (over tmux) and how?

Is there a way to create identifiable Byobu sessions so that when I've got multiple sessions running, the byobu-select-session menu gives me a list of sessions I can recognize, as opposed to non-descript tmux port numbers?

In an ideal world, it would be great to be able to both start a session giving it a name and to modify such a session to change a name if it's already running? Is this possible, how?

Edit 1: Some further details:

• I'm using tmux as the backend and don't especially want to switch back to screen.
• I've now tried starting a session with byobu -S "Name" to no avail :-(

Edit 2: Some discoveries:

• I've now discovered a partial answer in using tmux native commands: tmux rename-session <current-name> <new-name> renames an existing session and tmux new -s session_name creates a new names session. I'm surprised byobu -S "name" isn't liked to tmux new -s session_name for byobu with a tmux backend.

EDIT: This question was reworked to make it more useful to the community and less specific to me.

Questions seem to come up reasonably often regarding ssh and problems with authorised keys access, but very few seem to have a clear answer anywhere;

Server keeps asking for password after I've copied my SSH Public Key to authorized_keys

ssh not accepting public key

how do I use ssh with key access in 11.10

passwordless ssh not working

So, In the communities opinion, what is the tried and tested method for getting to the bottom of such problems?