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From: John Capo <jc@irbs.com>
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Subject: Re: /dev/console & xconsole
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Date: Sun, 6 Aug 1995 19:39:11 -0400 (EDT)
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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