>>>>> On Mon, 12 Feb 1996, Wayne Berke <berke@panix.com> writes:

> I haven't been able to get the -C flag to work even _with_ the setuid bit
> set.  Has anyone?

Yes.  Actually, it was sort of accidental, but I just set up my system to 
start xdm at boot time.  When I added the GiveConsole script (which does a 
chown on /dev/console), my "xterm -C" suddenly started catching the console 
messages.

I've been confused for a while by this console thing on the i386 port with 
multiple vty's.  On SunOS, for example, when I log into the machine, I log 
into /dev/console and the login program automatically gives me ownership of 
/dev/console.  On NetBSD/i386 one doesn't log into /dev/console but 
/dev/vty0.  Somehow console messages end up on vty #0, but the two devices 
are not the same.
So, who should be able to write to /dev/console?  Are there any security 
implications?  Anyone have a clear picture of how this should work?


Tom Pavel

Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
pavel@slac.stanford.edu                 http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~pavel/