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Date:      Fri, 12 Oct 2001 13:35:39 -0700
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Cc:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, Doug Barton <DougB@DougBarton.net>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Strike three, you're out 
Message-ID:  <20011012203539.B887E3808@overcee.netplex.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <xzppu7skhm8.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> 

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Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> writes:
> > On 12 Oct 2001, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> > > Remove UCONSOLE from kernel config.  This has been discussed to death
> > > several times on the lists.
> > That only prevents non-root from triggering the bug.
> 
> True.  The only thing I know of that uses TIOCCONS apart from
> sysinstall is xconsole, but now that I think of it, xconsole does run
> as root if you use xdm.  I guess the best way to avoid triggering this
> panic is to remove the UCONSOLE option from the kernel *and* comment
> out the xconsole line from /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0.

The default xdm config is really hosed.  You also should remove the
chown/chmod of /dev/console as well.

Cheers,
-Peter
--
Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au
"All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5


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