Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2000 15:33:18 +0100 From: Sascha Blank <blank@uni-trier.de> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Should /etc/rc correct /dev/console's owner and mode? Message-ID: <20000101153318.A382@blank.uni-trier.de>
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Hello,
/etc/rc on my FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE/i386 system contains the following
lines:
# Whack the pty perms back into shape.
chflags 0 /dev/tty[pqrsPQRS]*
chmod 666 /dev/tty[pqrsPQRS]*
chown root:wheel /dev/tty[pqrsPQRS]*
Shouldn't something similar be done to /dev/console? I'm asking because
I have just experienced the following situation:
I have installed xdm from XFree86 3.3.5 and configured it to display
"xconsole" along with the xlogin widget. I use the scripts
"GiveConsole" and "TakeConsole" as advised to assign the ownership of
/dev/console to the user that is currently logged in.
Today I somehow managed it to freeze my X server while I was logged in;
I had to reboot by pressing the reset button. When xdm finally started
up it didn't show xconsole because /dev/console still belonged to me
instead of root ("Couldn't open console").
This problem can of course be solved by adding a few lines to
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsetup (where xconsole is usually started). But
nonetheless this makes me wonder whether the permission and ownership of
/dev/console shouldn't be reset at boot time to the values of
/dev/MAKEDEV.
Any thoughts?
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