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List:       hurd-help
Subject:    Re: Permissions with /dev/console
From:       Ognyan Kulev <ogi () fmi ! uni-sofia ! bg>
Date:       2004-08-22 8:46:12
Message-ID: 41285D54.1030009 () fmi ! uni-sofia ! bg
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Marco Gerards wrote:
> "Jose Luis Alarcon Sanchez" <jlalarcon@tandilnet.zzn.com> writes:
>>login: chown: /dev/console: Operation not permitted
> 
> I
> don't know the side effects of this, but I have not noticed any
> drawbacks.

There is one drawback.  If Hurd console is not used, after login of 
non-root user, screen can't be run, because it wants to do change stuff 
with /dev/console.

Regards,
ogi


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