Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 10:39:16 +0100 (BST) From: Nik Clayton <nik@blueberry.co.uk> To: s_koyin@eduserv.its.unimelb.EDU.AU (HMG coA reductase) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /dev/console Message-ID: <199604240939.KAA16885@plum.blueberry.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960424123101.3879B-100000@eduserv.its.unimelb.EDU.AU> from "HMG coA reductase" at Apr 24, 96 12:31:52 pm
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> try to set the setuid bit on /usr/X11R6/bin/xconsole. ie:
> chmod 4755 /usr/X11R6/bin/xconsole
As far as I can tell, this shouldn't be necessary. To quote from the 'xterm'
man page:
-C This option indicates that this window should
receive console output. This is not supported on
all systems. To obtain console output, you must
be the owner of the console device, and you must
have read and write permission for it. If you are
running X under xdm on the console screen you may
need to have the session startup and reset pro-
grams explicitly change the ownership of the con-
sole device in order to get this option to work.
which implies that regular users should be able to do this (in fact, it's
because I can do this under SunOS 4.1.3 that I want to do it under FreeBSD).
Taking a poke around /usr/local/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm, I can see
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 10 390 Nov 3 00:24 GiveConsole*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 10 249 Nov 3 00:24 TakeConsole*
and the comments within them imply that they set the console permissions
correctly. However, it also looks like they're meant to be run from xdm,
which runs as root and so can do this. The 'xdm_config' file shows that
these programs are to be run at xdm startup and reset respectively.
A regular user running 'startx' can't do this. For purely historical reasons
(i.e., it's what I started with, and it's now ingrained in the fingers)
I normally use 'startx'. And I'd quite like the console stuff to work
correctly with this.
The only other suggestion so far (add myself to the operator group) hasn't
worked.
N
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