Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 05:13:04 -0400 From: "Donald J. Maddox" <dmaddox@scsn.net> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: "Jonathan A. Zdziarski" <jonz@netrail.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Changing Default tty Group Message-ID: <19970813051304.54159@scsn.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970812184023.252F-100000@localhost>; from Doug White on Tue, Aug 12, 1997 at 06:42:15PM -0700 References: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970811155113.24739B-100000@netrail.net> <Pine.BSF.3.96.970812184023.252F-100000@localhost>
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On Tue, Aug 12, 1997 at 06:42:15PM -0700, Doug White wrote:
> 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.
>
This kind of thing is exactly what fbtab is for, no? `man 5 fbtab` ;-)
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