Subject: Help - xconsole failure when non-root
To: None <port-mac68k@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Kyle McKay <Kyle_McKay@intuit.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 03/10/1997 11:53:00
Using the standard 1.2 release of NetBSD on an SE/30 with the
later monochrome Xserver, everything seems to work.
However, when I log in as other than root, and attempt to
run xconsole, it says it can't open console.
What's going on? I tried making xconsole set uid root
and set gid wheel. I tried making /dev/console a=rw.
None of those worked. However, if I su to root and then
launch it, it works fine.
Any ideas how to get xconsole to talk to the console
when it's not running as root?
Kyle McKay
Kyle_McKay@Intuit.Com