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From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com>
To: User Al Johnson <Al.Johnson@AJC.State.Net>
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Subject: Re: 2 unrelated questions
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On Mon, 6 Oct 1997, User Al Johnson wrote:

> I've got a couple of very unrelated questions.
> How do I setup XConsole so that who ever is logged
> on at the console can do an Xconsole?  I did this on
> one machine by allowing anyone read access to /dev/console.
This is easy; run xdm.
Let me dig thru my files here.....
{/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm} root@mortis: %cat GiveConsole 
chown $USER /dev/console
{/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm} root@mortis: %cat TakeConsole 
chmod 622 /dev/console
chown root /dev/console
(Both trimmed to remove comments)
and this:
{/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm} root@mortis: %cat xdm-config
(snip)
! The following three resources set up display :0 as the console.
DisplayManager._0.setup:        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0
DisplayManager._0.startup:      /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/GiveConsole
DisplayManager._0.reset:        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/TakeConsole
!

This chowns the console to a certain user when they login through xdm, and
chown's it back to root afterward.

Another thought (maybe less secure) is what I usually do; install sudo,
write a script to startup the xconsole with a given size, verbose, etc,
and
give everyone permission to sudo xconscript.

> 
> Secondly,  is there an app out there that will sit on a serial
> line and pull caller id off the wire and log it?  I've got a 
> couple applicaitons for this.  1) I get so many calls at home
> that my 25 number caller-id box fills up.  2) I work for an ISP
> and would like better call tracking.
I'm sure there is one, but I don't know about this.

> 
> TIA,
> 
>  -- Al
> 

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