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Date:      Mon, 2 Apr 2001 22:17:30 -0400
From:      Peter Radcliffe <pir@pir.net>
To:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: xconsole broken in recent 4.3-RC?
Message-ID:  <20010402221730.B15104@pir.net>
In-Reply-To: <200104030208.f33284x38867@cwsys.cwsent.com>; from Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca on Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 07:07:56PM -0700
References:  <XFMail.010402184954.jdp@polstra.com> <200104030208.f33284x38867@cwsys.cwsent.com>

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Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> probably said:
> GiveConsole should contain:
> chown root /dev/console

Errrm, are you sure that's what you meant ?

xconsole checks if /dev/console belongs to to the user running it,
last I checked, so you need;

chown $USER /dev/console

> TakeConsole should contain:
> 
> chmod 622 /dev/console
> chown root /dev/console

P.

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pir                  pir@pir.net                    pir@net.tufts.edu


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