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 Message-ID: <Mutt.19961210114512.nik@blueberry.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <199612100811.JAA13923@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>; from Christoph Kukulies on Dec 10, 1996 09:11:37 %2B0100 References: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961209161556.1382X-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> <199612100811.JAA13923@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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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
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