From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 8 01:30:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA24576 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 01:30:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from notabene.zer0.org (209-63-247-84.smf.jps.net [209.63.247.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA24567 for ; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 01:30:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gsutter@n1.dyn.ml.org) Received: (from gsutter@localhost) by notabene.zer0.org (8.8.7/8.8.8) id BAA01995 for questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 01:30:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gsutter) Message-ID: <19980908013001.A1878@notabene.zer0.org> Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 01:30:01 -0700 From: Gregory Sutter To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Users can't open console Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i Organization: Zer0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Even with "options UCONSOLE" set in the kernel, I can't get any non-root 'xconsole' to grab the console. I've tried setuid bits on /dev/console, /dev/consolectl (which has a purpose unknown to me), and xconsole to no avail. Tried on both 2.2.7-RELEASE and 2.2.5-STABLE. Anyone know why this isn't working? notabene gsutter /usr/X11R6/bin $ll xco* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 16384 Oct 28 1997 xconsole* notabene gsutter /usr/X11R6/bin $ll /dev/co* crw--w---- 1 root wheel 0, 0 Sep 8 01:02 /dev/console crw------- 1 root wheel 12, 255 Oct 26 1997 /dev/consolectl Greg -- Gregory S. Sutter Failing sardine factory cans employees! mailto:gsutter@pobox.com http://www.pobox.com/~gsutter/ PGP DSS public key 0x40AE3052 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message