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Date:      Wed,  5 Jun 1996 13:28:32 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Matthew Jason White <mwhite+@CMU.EDU>
To:        freebsd-questions@freefall.FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: /dev/console permissions
Message-ID:  <olhQD0S00YUvICeW0M@andrew.cmu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <9606051548.AA16570@ruddles.stat.uconn.edu>
References:  <9606051548.AA16570@ruddles.stat.uconn.edu>

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Excerpts from internet.computing.freebsd-questions: 5-Jun-96
/dev/console permissions by Jeffrey M. Metcalf@stat. 
> I am running the fvwm window manager and would like my users to be able to
> run xconsole so tha they may check the console messages.  However, they are
> unable to redirect the output since no matter who logs into the console,
> it always seems to be owned by root.users.  There evidently must be a way 
> to make the 
>  
> /dev/console 
>  
> file be owned by whomever logged into the terminal.

Define:

options UCONSOLE

in your kernel configuration file and then recompile.  That should do
the trick for you.


-Matt

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Matt White
Email: mwhite+@cmu.edu		http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/user/mwhite/www/




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