Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 12:24:16 +0100 From: nik@iii.co.uk To: Jasper Wallace <jasper@staff.argonet.co.uk>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Install *actually* friendly Message-ID: <19980805122416.A22993@iii.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.3.96.980805121006.14165F-100000@box.argonet.co.uk>; from Jasper Wallace on Wed, Aug 05, 1998 at 12:12:47PM %2B0200 References: <199808050244.TAA09949@freebie.dcfinc.com> <Pine.SGI.3.96.980805121006.14165F-100000@box.argonet.co.uk>
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On Wed, Aug 05, 1998 at 12:12:47PM +0200, Jasper Wallace wrote:
> on my machine at home I've got:
>
> chown $USER /dev/fd0a
>
> in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/GiveConsole and
>
> chown root /dev/fd0a
>
> in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/TakeConsole
>
> so that when people log in via xdm they can mount and use floppies without
> being root (and some have pretty icons on their dsesktops to do it for
> them...)
For people not using xdm you can use fbtab(5), mine has
/dev/ttyv0 0600 /dev/console:/dev/fd0a
Anyone logging in on /dev/ttyv0 will get ownership of /dev/console and
/dev/fd0a, with the permissions on these devices set appropriately.
This functionality is part of /usr/bin/login. It might make sense to split
it out into a separate program, and alter both login and TakeConsole to
call this program, so that the functionality is only in one place.
Thoughts?
I suppose it's also possible that xdm uses login, in which case this
functionality already exists -- I don't run xdm.
N
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