"write" permission off, but mesg set to "y"

[wobster109]

Hello, Linux Forums!

I'm remotely SSH-ed to my school's Linux computer lab (using SSH Secure Shell), and I'm trying to use the "write" command from my laptop. This is the error message I'm getting:

write: you have write permission turned off.

Every solution I've found online says to use

mesg y

to enable messages, but I already have mesg y set. (When I type in "mesg" by itself, I'm told that it "is y.")

Is there anything else that needs to be turned on? Thanks for your time.

Sincerely
wobster109

[tpl]

frm "man mesg"

> Mesg controls the access to your terminal by others. It’s typically used
> to allow or disallow other users to write to your terminal (see write(1)).

can you login to the server under different names? Then one can write
to the other.

[unlimitedscolobb]

Hello, Linux Forums!

I'm remotely SSH-ed to my school's Linux computer lab (using SSH Secure Shell), and I'm trying to use the "write" command from my laptop.

Could you please paste the exact write command you are using? As (I think) tpl points out, your problem might be that with mesg y you are allowing writes to your terminal.

By the way, you could write to yourself for test purposes (I've just tested it):

write <your-username>

To do this you will have to open two SSH sessions.