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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!david
From: david@mlb.geomechanics.csiro.au (David Le Blanc)
Subject: Re: [386BSD] XFree86, no console for non-root user
Message-ID: <david.717225352@mlb.geomechanics.csiro.au>
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Organization: CSIRO DIT (Melb.)
References: <19ks69INNd2l@corax.udac.uu.se> <1992Sep22.043733.22702@ucc.su.OZ.AU>
Date: 23 Sep 92 05:15:52 GMT
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dawes@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Dawes) writes:

>In article <19ks69INNd2l@corax.udac.uu.se> goran@astro.uu.se (Goran Hammarback) writes:
>>I've installed XFree86 with the kernel patches and it works
>>very well except for the slightly annoying problem that when
>>a non-root user starts xconsole, the response is :
>>   Can't open console.
>>Xterm -C does not work either.
>>

>The user running xconsole or 'xterm -C' must own /dev/console.  Unfortunately
>since the getty runs now on /dev/vga the ownership of /dev/console doesn't
>get set when logging in.  If you use xdm, then GiveConsole and TakeConsole
>should set the ownership and permissions correctly.

This just *might* be completely un related, but when I (using xdm) login as
*me*, and later type 'su' and enter the password, it gives me a root
prompt, and promptly locks the keyboard. I can mouse around, cutting and
pasting, but I cannot use any keys!!!

>David
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