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Date:      Tue, 17 Aug 2004 12:42:42 +1000
From:      freebsd-stable@auscert.org.au
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   console grabbing in X
Message-ID:  <200408170242.i7H2ggiP018187@app.auscert.org.au>

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Hi,

I'm not sure what this option allows:

# Allow ordinary users to take the console - this is useful for X.
options         UCONSOLE

I have this configured in my kernel config, but I still can't run xconsole
as a non-root user (program launches with "Couldn't open console" error).
Am I misunderstanding something?

thanks,
-- Joel Hatton --
Security Analyst                    | Hotline: +61 7 3365 4417
AusCERT - Australia's national CERT | Fax:     +61 7 3365 7031
The University of Queensland        | WWW:     www.auscert.org.au
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