Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 13:50:23 +0100 (BST) From: Nik Clayton <nik@blueberry.co.uk> To: robin@is.co.za Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /dev/console Message-ID: <199604231250.NAA10422@plum.blueberry.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <199604231236.OAA22636@admin.is.co.za> from "Robin Lunn" at Apr 23, 96 02:36:46 pm
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> Nik Clayton wrote:
> > Does anyone have the correct permissions for /dev/console handy. Programs
> > like xconsole (or xterm -C) have never worked for me.
> >
> > At the moment, /dev/console is
> >
> > crw------- 1 root wheel 0, 0 Apr 23 11:09 /dev/console
> >
> > which is obviously wrong. All I really want is for console messages to
> > come up in one of my xterms when in X (which I start with 'startx', not
> > xdm).
>
> These permissions are fine. In order to get xconsole working add yourself to
> the "operator" group by editing /etc/group. As an "operator" you can access
> the stiffy drive, shut the machine down and run xconsole without having to su
> or be root.
Just tried that, and it doesn't work. However, interestingly enough,
% ls -l `which xconsole`
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 10 16384 Nov 3 00:24 /usr/X11R6/bin/xconsole*
Shows that xconsole is in a group with no name. On my system, 'operator'
is group #5, and I certainly haven't changed that since installation. Besides,
surely xconsole would need to be setuid for this to work.
I thought the whole point was that ordinary users should be able to take
the console. As documented in LINT. . .
Cheers though,
N
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