From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 12 18:42:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA07868 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 12 Aug 1997 18:42:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts7-line11.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA07857 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 1997 18:42:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA00300; Tue, 12 Aug 1997 18:42:15 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 18:42:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: "Jonathan A. Zdziarski" cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Changing Default tty Group In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 :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