From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 7 22:21:14 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6A0537B401 for ; Sat, 7 Jun 2003 22:21:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay.pair.com (relay.pair.com [209.68.1.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D526143F3F for ; Sat, 7 Jun 2003 22:21:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tpark@drivespeed.com) Received: (qmail 33556 invoked from network); 8 Jun 2003 05:21:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO titanium) (209.10.208.162) by relay.pair.com with SMTP; 8 Jun 2003 05:21:12 -0000 X-pair-Authenticated: 209.10.208.162 From: "Thomas Park" To: Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2003 22:21:17 -0700 Message-ID: <000901c32d7d$ca53b030$11640a0a@titanium> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Importance: Normal Subject: /dev/tty keeps changing permissions..? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2003 05:21:14 -0000 Hello, I've been having an interesting problem with my FreeBSD 5.0 install - for whatever reason, the permissions and ownership on /dev/tty keep on being automatically changed in such a way that it becomes impossible for most users of the system to initiate outbound SSH sessions. I'm not sure what causes this, but after a few days of running, I'll notice that the system has set up /dev/tty thusly: crw--w---- 1 tpark tty 5, 1 Jun 7 22:02 /dev/tty Which, of course, means that any user not myself or in group "tty" will have problems. On my previous FreeBSD 4.6 install, /dev/tty was owned by "root:wheel" and had permissions 0666 set. I tried setting /dev/tty to this configuration on the new system, which makes ssh and other tools work fine. The catch: I found that the system will randomly revert /dev/tty to the oddball individual user ownership and mode 0620 - I haven't been able to figure out what causes this or when this happens. If anybody has any advice on how to prevent the system from doing this, I would be much relieved! Thanks, thomas park ..................................... Thomas Park | driveSPEED Designs, LLC e: tpark@drivespeed.com t: +1 415 292 8915