Date: Sun, 28 Apr 1996 16:23:20 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: robert@elastica.com (Robert Nicholson) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ownership of /dev/console? Message-ID: <199604280653.QAA10666@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199604272246.SAA00351@justine.elastica.com> from "Robert Nicholson" at Apr 27, 96 06:46:52 pm
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Robert Nicholson stands accused of saying: > > Hi, I'm using xterm -C and I'd like to know how generally controlling > ownership of /dev/console is performed. I want to capture the output > of the console ... Is there a problem doing that? > > Currently, I've had to chown /dev/console to the login user. This is how it's normally done, AFAIK. Looking at /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/GiveConsole : # Assign ownership of the console to the invoking user # $XConsortium: GiveConsole,v 1.2 93/09/28 14:29:20 gildea Exp $ # # By convention, both xconsole and xterm -C check that the # console is owned by the invoking user and is readable before attaching # the console output. This way a random user can invoke xterm -C without # causing serious grief. # chown $USER /dev/console > Cheers. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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