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Date:      Tue, 8 Sep 1998 09:13:30 -0400
From:      Norman C Rice <nrice@emu.sourcee.com>
To:        Gregory Sutter <gsutter@pobox.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Users can't open console
Message-ID:  <19980908091330.A4718@emu.sourcee.com>
In-Reply-To: <19980908013001.A1878@notabene.zer0.org>; from Gregory Sutter on Tue, Sep 08, 1998 at 01:30:01AM -0700
References:  <19980908013001.A1878@notabene.zer0.org>

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On Tue, Sep 08, 1998 at 01:30:01AM -0700, Gregory Sutter wrote:
> Even with "options UCONSOLE" set in the kernel, I can't get any
> non-root 'xconsole' to grab the console.  
> 
> I've tried setuid bits on /dev/console, /dev/consolectl (which has a
> purpose unknown to me), and xconsole to no avail.  Tried on both
> 2.2.7-RELEASE and 2.2.5-STABLE.  Anyone know why this isn't working?

man fbtab. Try placing the following in /etc/fbtab

  /dev/ttyv0      0600    /dev/console

-- 
Regards,
Norman C. Rice, Jr.

> notabene gsutter /usr/X11R6/bin $ll xco*
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  16384 Oct 28  1997 xconsole*
> notabene gsutter /usr/X11R6/bin $ll /dev/co*
> crw--w----  1 root  wheel    0,   0 Sep  8 01:02 /dev/console
> crw-------  1 root  wheel   12, 255 Oct 26  1997 /dev/consolectl
> 
> Greg
> -- 
> Gregory S. Sutter                  Failing sardine factory cans employees!
> mailto:gsutter@pobox.com
> http://www.pobox.com/~gsutter/
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