Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 08:32:22 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: chat@freebsd.org Cc: lehey.pad@sni.de, s_koyin@eduserv.its.unimelb.EDU.AU (HMG coA reductase) Subject: Re: /dev/console Message-ID: <199604240632.IAA26114@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960424122819.3879A-100000@eduserv.its.unimelb.EDU.AU> from "HMG coA reductase" at Apr 24, 96 12:29:40 pm
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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. ;-)
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