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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!news.univie.ac.at!news.tu-graz.ac.at!fstgds01!chmr From: chmr@fstgds01.tu-graz.ac.at (Christoph Robitschko) Subject: Re: [386BSD] XFree86, no console for non-root user Message-ID: <1992Sep23.180754.6788@news.tu-graz.ac.at> Sender: news@news.tu-graz.ac.at (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: fstgds01 Organization: Technical University of Graz, Austria References: <19ks69INNd2l@corax.udac.uu.se> <1992Sep22.043733.22702@ucc.su.OZ.AU> <david.717225352@mlb.geomechanics.csiro.au> <1992Sep23.132041.11924@ucc.su.OZ.AU> Date: Wed, 23 Sep 92 18:07:54 GMT Lines: 16 In article <1992Sep23.132041.11924@ucc.su.OZ.AU> dawes@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Dawes) writes: >In article <david.717225352@mlb.geomechanics.csiro.au> david@mlb.geomechanics.csiro.au (David Le Blanc) writes: >>dawes@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Dawes) writes: >>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!!! > >I haven't seen this problem. I'd guess that something is opening >/dev/console. Have you changed the "console" line in /etc/ttys to "vga"? > Maybe syslog is configured so that it writes SU messages to the console ? Christoph -- signature: Connection timed out