From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 21 4:52:41 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A86A37B401 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 04:52:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from quadric.isometry.net (pc3-oxfd2-6-cust207.oxfd.cable.ntl.com [81.103.193.207]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C249643ED8 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 04:52:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from robin@isometry.net) Received: from ishadow (ishadow [192.168.108.2]) by quadric.isometry.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB54D7F; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 12:52:37 +0000 (UTC) Reply-To: From: "Robin Breathe" To: "'Odhiambo Washington'" Cc: Subject: RE: adduser(8) in 5.0-R Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 12:52:39 -0000 Organization: isometry.net Message-ID: <002601c2c14b$fafeb660$026ca8c0@ishadow> X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.4510 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 In-Reply-To: <20030121124948.GB15725@ns2.wananchi.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > When you are logged in as root, the virtual terminal that you > are using has those permissions - root:tty When you login as > robin, it will have robin:tty. The unused virtual terminals > will remain root:wheel > > It's about who is assigned that device. Technically, I am not > able to explain this but that is what I've observed. Clever, that gets my full approval =) Thanks for your observations. Robin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message