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List:       kde-user
Subject:    Re: Device permissions question
From:       Ken Archer <karcher () sprintmail ! com>
Date:       1998-07-30 20:28:06
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Do you have the three regular desktop icons and can you make configuration
changes to your desktop.  If you don't, let me know.  You may need to change
the ownership on your home directory.


On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, Paul Kersting wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have KDE beta 4 installed on my RH5.0 linux system, and it works well, but I
>had some problems opening windows for various applications (kvt, kedit, etc).  I
>have a single user workstation, and I typically do my work logged in as a
>regular user.  When I tried to open a terminal window, using kvt, it could find
>kvt but it couldn't open the window.  Using strace, I got the indication that I
>needed to set permissions for terminal devices.  I didn't try working in KDE as
>root to see if I had the same problem.  In /dev, the permissions for tt* and pt*
>devices were all set to
>
>
>crw-r--r--
>
>I used chmod to change permissions to
>
>crw-rw-rw-
>
>and now I seem to be able to open terminal windows and other apps without
>problems.
>
>My question is, is this the right fix for this or should I have done something
>else to make this work right?
>
>I'm still new enough at this that I can be dangerous and I don't want to use a
>fix that will cause me other problems.  Guidance would be appreciated.
>
>Thanks
>
>Paul
>
>
>--
>Paul J. Kersting
>KW Consulting, Inc. - Fuel Rod Expertise for the Nuclear Power Industry
>E-mail: paul@kwconsulting.com    WWW: www.kwconsulting.com
>(412) 635-7333 (voice)  (412) 367-2195 (fax)
>
>
>
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