Date: Sun, 28 Apr 1996 10:05:25 -0400 (EDT) From: "Adrian T. Filipi-Martin" <atf3r@stretch.cs.virginia.edu> To: Robert Nicholson <robert@elastica.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ownership of /dev/console? Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.90.960428100238.16090A-100000@stretch.cs.Virginia.edu> In-Reply-To: <199604280653.QAA10666@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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Robert Nicholson said: > > Hi, I'm using xterm -C and I'd like to know how generally controlling > ownership of /dev/console is performed. I want to capture the output > of the console ... Is there a problem doing that? > > Currently, I've had to chown /dev/console to the login user. If you actually login on the console or vtty, you can have devices chowned to the login user using /etc/fbtab. It has a man page. I don'tbelieve this approach works for xdm. Adrian adrian@virginia.edu ---->>>>| Support your local programmer, System Administrator --->>>| STOP Software Patent Abuses NOW! NVL, NIIMS and Telemedicine Labs -->>| For an application and information Member: League for Programming Freedom ->| see: http://www.lpf.org/
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