Date: Sun, 6 Aug 1995 19:39:11 -0400 (EDT) From: John Capo <jc@irbs.com> To: rpt@miles.sso.loral.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com (freebsd-hackers) Subject: Re: /dev/console & xconsole Message-ID: <199508062339.TAA13402@irbs.irbs.com> In-Reply-To: <199508062303.AA21733@physics.su.oz.au> from "David Dawes" at Aug 7, 95 09:03:21 am
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David Dawes writes: > > >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 > /dev/console needs to be owned by the user running xconsole. It works after you su due to /dev/console being owned by root. If you run xdm, the console is chown'ed to the user logging in. John Capo IRBS Engineering
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