Subject: Re: No controlling tty (open /dev/tty: Permission denied)
To: Ganimede <newtoolbox@yahoo.com>
From: Greg A. Woods <woods@planix.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 03/04/2007 14:07:24
At Sun, 4 Mar 2007 04:56:35 -0800 (PST),
Ganimede wrote:
>
> Each time that I login as standard user (with root all
> it's ok) I see this error message:
>
>
> NetBSD 3.1 (SPARCclassic) #0: Mon Feb 26 09:24:40 CET 2007
>
> Welcome to NetBSD!
>
> ksh: No controlling tty (open /dev/tty: Permission denied)
> ksh: warning: won't have full job control
> $
Well what are the permisisons on the device file "/dev/tty"?
They should be user+group+world readable and writable:
$ ls -l /dev/tty
crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 1, 0 Mar 2 04:03 /dev/tty
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