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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoknor.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!oracle.pnl.gov!osi-east2.es.net!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.nic.surfnet.nl!sun4nl!phcoms4.seri.philips.nl!kitty.spi.cnps.philips.nl!guido From: guido@kitty.spi.cnps.philips.nl (Guido van Rooij) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: /dev/console -- how to use it Date: 3 May 1995 11:05:16 GMT Organization: Philips Corporate Internet Services, Eindhoven Lines: 23 Message-ID: <3o7o1c$mk5@phcoms4.seri.philips.nl> References: <3no9ls$k2r@atlantis.utmb.edu> <3nsore$89@wsantee.oz.net> <3o51cf$qp@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> Reply-To: Guido.vanRooij@nl.cis.philips.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 130.144.199.30 In article <3o51cf$qp@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de>, J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote: >Wes Santee <wsantee@wsantee.oz.net> wrote: > >NOOO! > >Enabling a getty on /dev/console has been brok^H^H^H^Hdeprecated ages >ago. > >The correct way for him is to either set the permissions of >/dev/console the hard way (for a typical single-user machine this >might be acceptable), or to pass the ownership of /dev/console around >to the one who's currently logged in. > Or do a man fbtab and fill in /dev/console as one of the devices that should change of owner/permissions. -Guido -- Name : Guido van Rooij Voice : +31 (0)40 734746 E-mail: Guido.vanRooij@nl.cis.philips.com Fax : +31 (0)40 784559 Philips C&P, VN 2.08, P.O. Box 218, 5600 MD Eindhoven, The Netherlands