From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 13 02:13:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA06345 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 02:13:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.scsn.net (scsn.net [206.25.246.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA06338 for ; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 02:13:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rhiannon.scsn.net ([208.133.153.34]) by mail.scsn.net (Post.Office MTA v3.1 release PO203a ID# 0-32322U5000L100S10000) with ESMTP id AAA174; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 05:15:00 -0400 Received: (from root@localhost) by rhiannon.scsn.net (8.8.7/8.8.5) id FAA00803; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 05:13:05 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <19970813051304.54159@scsn.net> Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 05:13:04 -0400 From: "Donald J. Maddox" To: Doug White Cc: "Jonathan A. Zdziarski" , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Changing Default tty Group Reply-To: dmaddox@scsn.net References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81 In-Reply-To: ; from Doug White on Tue, Aug 12, 1997 at 06:42:15PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, Aug 12, 1997 at 06:42:15PM -0700, Doug White wrote: > On Mon, 11 Aug 1997, Jonathan A. Zdziarski wrote: > > > I'm attempting to find out where to change the default group that tty's > > default to when somebody slides into one - currently it's group 5 > > (defaultly tty), and I'd like to make it writable by a different group > > (100:users) so that all of our users don't need to be in the tty group to > > write people. Thanks in advance > > You can change the group of /usr/bin/write to what you like. > > Here are my perms for reference: > > -r-xr-sr-x 1 bin tty 12288 Feb 6 1997 /usr/bin/write* > > It's setgid tty, so I don't understand why yours doen't work. Perhaps > the group got changed or the gid bit lost. > > It needs to be group tty to write the terminals since they are > owned by :tty. > This kind of thing is exactly what fbtab is for, no? `man 5 fbtab` ;-)