Bug 4637

Summary:	/dev/console have wrong permissions
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	pianosolo
Component:	dev	Assignee:	Preston Brown <pbrown>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	6.0
Target Milestone:	---
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.xfree86.org/FAQ/#LinuxConsole
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:		Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:		Story Points:	---
Clone Of:		Environment:
Last Closed:	1999-08-23 14:34:36 UTC	Type:	---
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

Description pianosolo 1999-08-21 07:37:01 UTC

Hi!

A bug about /dev/console has been reported here :
http://www.xfree86.org/FAQ/#LinuxConsole

But no one seems to have made the changes in the
distribution (?!?).

Currently, /dev/console is (600,root,root). Running "cd /dev
; ./MAKEDEV console" turns /dev/console to (622,root,tty).

I suggest an erratum for package "dev" to correct this
problem right at the source.

Comment 1 Preston Brown 1999-08-23 14:34:59 UTC

/dev/console is now automatically assigned ownership to the user that
is logged in by the PAM authentication subsystem, so this is not
necessary.  It will also automatically revert to root ownership when
the console user logs out.