From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 8 06:13:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA27078 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 06:13:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from emu.sourcee.com (emu.sourcee.com [199.201.159.173]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA27065 for ; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 06:13:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nrice@emu.sourcee.com) Received: (from nrice@localhost) by emu.sourcee.com (8.8.8/8.8.3) id JAA04765; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 09:13:31 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <19980908091330.A4718@emu.sourcee.com> Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 09:13:30 -0400 From: Norman C Rice To: Gregory Sutter , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Users can't open console References: <19980908013001.A1878@notabene.zer0.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <19980908013001.A1878@notabene.zer0.org>; from Gregory Sutter on Tue, Sep 08, 1998 at 01:30:01AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Sep 08, 1998 at 01:30:01AM -0700, Gregory Sutter wrote: > 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? man fbtab. Try placing the following in /etc/fbtab /dev/ttyv0 0600 /dev/console -- Regards, Norman C. Rice, Jr. > 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