From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 10 05:36:32 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id FAA00975 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 10 Dec 1996 05:36:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id FAA00947 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 1996 05:36:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from coconut.blueberry.co.uk ([194.70.52.66]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id DAA13148 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 1996 03:48:06 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nik@localhost) by coconut.blueberry.co.uk (8.8.3/8.8.3) id LAA09985; Tue, 10 Dec 1996 11:45:12 GMT Message-ID: Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 11:45:12 +0000 From: nik@blueberry.co.uk (Nik Clayton) To: kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (Christoph Kukulies) Cc: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: xconsole - /dev/console References: <199612100811.JAA13923@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.51 Mime-Version: 1.0 Organization: Blueberry New Media In-Reply-To: <199612100811.JAA13923@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>; from Christoph Kukulies on Dec 10, 1996 09:11:37 +0100 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Christoph Kukulies writes: > > On Mon, 9 Dec 1996, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > > > > > Is there a way to allow a normal user to use xconsole or would > > > opening /dev/console to the world compromise security? > > > > ? People have to run startx or log into a xdm-controlled terminal, so > > they're authenticated. > > It's not that I want to inhibit users seeing the console > messages, it was just the point if changing /dev/console's permissions > could compromise security anyhow. > I've seen /dev/console having crw--w--w- on a Linux system. Take a look at fbtab(5). Mine looks like /dev/ttyv0 0660 /dev/console N -- --+=[ Blueberry Hill Blueberry New Media ]=+-- --+=[ http://www.blueberry.co.uk/ 1/9 Chelsea Harbour Design Centre, ]=+-- --+=[ WebMaster@blueberry.co.uk London, England, SW10 0XE ]=+-- --+=[ Ten-Thousand-Dimensional Web in Heaven and Net on Earth ]ENTP