From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Apr 24 00:15:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA23866 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 00:15:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA23820 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 00:14:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA10194; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 09:13:10 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA20952; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 09:13:09 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id IAA26114; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 08:32:23 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199604240632.IAA26114@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: /dev/console To: chat@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 08:32:22 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: lehey.pad@sni.de, s_koyin@eduserv.its.unimelb.EDU.AU (HMG coA reductase) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from "HMG coA reductase" at Apr 24, 96 12:29:40 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As HMG coA reductase wrote: > What's a "stiffy" drive? The opposite of a "floppy" drive? > Oh, i once got this problem, similar one, and i found that xconsole or > some other x app wasn't setuid, so i chmod 4755 it and it's fine. xconsole is not supposed to be setuid root. Use ``options UCONSOLE'' in the kernel to allow everyone to take over the system's console. (xterm is only setuid root to write the accounting records. Perhaps this is wrong policy, and it should better call `login -f' to handle the `login session' semantics. Not all systems have a `login -f' however.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)