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Date:      Wed, 05 Jun 1996 19:04:46 +0100
From:      "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Matthew Jason White <mwhite+@CMU.EDU>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: /dev/console permissions 
Message-ID:  <23248.833997886@palmer.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 05 Jun 1996 13:28:32 EDT." <olhQD0S00YUvICeW0M@andrew.cmu.edu> 

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Matthew Jason White wrote in message ID
<olhQD0S00YUvICeW0M@andrew.cmu.edu>:
> Define:
> 
> options UCONSOLE
> 
> in your kernel configuration file and then recompile.  That should do
> the trick for you.

No, that just allows user-level code to grab the console output, it
doesn't affect file ownership. I believe it's even a no-op for
syscons, and just used for pcvt (from memory)

Gary
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Gary Palmer                                          FreeBSD Core Team Member
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