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Date:      Mon, 7 Aug 1995 09:03:21 +1000 (EST)
From:      David Dawes <dawes@physics.usyd.edu.au>
To:        rpt@miles.sso.loral.com (Richard Toren)
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: /dev/console & xconsole
Message-ID:  <199508062303.AA21733@physics.su.oz.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950806142037.12652A-100000@miles> from "Richard Toren" at Aug 6, 95 02:25:22 pm

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>Is there some magic I need to work to get xconsole to be able
>to open the console from my .xinitrc in 2.05? Did some characteristic of 
>/dev/console change?
>
>It works if started manually after an 'su'. Current permissions are:
>
></dev># ll /usr/X11R6/bin/xconsole
>-rwsr-xr-x  1 root  bin  16384 May  8 20:00 /usr/X11R6/bin/xconsole
></dev># ll /dev/console
>crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel    0,   0 Aug  6 11:53 /dev/console

I don't know the answer to your problem, but having xconsole setuid-root
is a mistake security-wise.

David



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