Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 26 Aug 2004 16:02:04 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.8.1-mm1 Tty problems? |
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On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 08:44:28AM +0300, ismail d?nmez wrote: > On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 23:36:02 +0200, Martin Schlemmer <azarah@nosferatu.za.org> > > He has the wrong permissions in > > /etc/udev/permissions.d/50-udev.permissions (or whatever), or no > > entry for it, and his default_mode (in /etc/udev/udev.conf) is very > > restrictive, or he does not use pam_console (or using it with a > > display manager?), or add some other explanation. Personally I would > > just say that he/his_distribution should fix the shipped > > udev.permissions. > > I run Slackware 10 and got this in /etc/udev/permissions.d/udev.permissions : > > # console devices > console:root:tty:0600 > tty:root:tty:0666 > tty[0-9][0-9]*:root:tty:0660 > vc/[0-9]*:root:tty:0660 > > > But the real problem is not permissions but the fact that /dev/tty is > a directory now not a character device. Is this intended? If yes this > will break many userspace applications which will assume /dev/tty is a > character device. Greg can you please comment?
/dev/tty is a char device on my system. Perhaps your rules files are making that not happen properly.
thanks,
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