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console group owership

DISCUSSION Harald Hoyer 2 participants 3 messages Mar 10, 2009

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Quoted 4 lines · Harald Hoyer

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?idH9166
Summary: /dev/console should be owned by group tty

what do you think?

On Debian systems it has mode 600 and mesg does not complain, so I would start looking deeper at why mesg is complaining on Red Hat systems.

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Quoted 9 lines · Marco d'Itri
Quoted 4 lines · Harald Hoyer

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?idH9166
Summary: /dev/console should be owned by group tty

what do you think?

On Debian systems it has mode 600 and mesg does not complain, so I would start looking deeper at why mesg is complaining on Red Hat systems.

sry, to have bothered the list.. the user should not have ended up with /dev/console as his tty in the first place.