Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 18:42:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Jonathan A. Zdziarski" <jonz@netrail.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Changing Default tty Group Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970812184023.252F-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970811155113.24739B-100000@netrail.net>
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On Mon, 11 Aug 1997, Jonathan A. Zdziarski wrote: > I'm attempting to find out where to change the default group that tty's > default to when somebody slides into one - currently it's group 5 > (defaultly tty), and I'd like to make it writable by a different group > (100:users) so that all of our users don't need to be in the tty group to > write people. Thanks in advance You can change the group of /usr/bin/write to what you like. Here are my perms for reference: -r-xr-sr-x 1 bin tty 12288 Feb 6 1997 /usr/bin/write* It's setgid tty, so I don't understand why yours doen't work. Perhaps the group got changed or the gid bit lost. It needs to be group tty to write the terminals since they are owned by <user>:tty. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo
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