Bug 261 – /dev/console

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Bug 261 - /dev/console

Summary:	/dev/console

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	dev (Show other bugs)
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Version:	5.2
Hardware:	i386 Linux

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Assigned To:	David Lawrence
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Reported:	1998-12-02 10:29 EST by ian.clark
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:37 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	1998-12-02 13:28:45 EST
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Description ian.clark 1998-12-02 10:29:48 EST

I have noticed this before on RedHat that when a user
logs in the /dev/console it is still left as owner root
and group root. This stops the logged in user from opening
console with xconsole.

On other distributions upon login the /dev/console is
chown'd to the user thus allowing access.

As a quick fix /dev/console can be chown'd by root to one
user, then xconsole can be opened OK, I'm still checking
to see if works OK - certainly anything pipped to
/dev/console comes out ok.

Another point is that XConsole opens OK, but doesn't show
anything pipped to /dev/console.

Ian

Comment 1 David Lawrence 1998-12-02 13:28:59 EST

When Red Hat is configured to run XDM as the login manager, there is a
script in /etc/X11/xdm called GiveConsole that does this for you.
Otherwise it will need to be done manually when just using startx.

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