Re: mesg and devfs
On Sat, 11 Aug 2001 22:39, Hugo van der Merwe wrote:
> When I start an rxvt, /dev/pts/* is created with hugo.hugo owndership.
> mesg demands that the group be tty. If hy change the group to tty,
> "mesg y" works fine. Might this be something one can fix with
> /etc/devfs/* settings? Anyway, I think this should be fixed, either the
> permissions have to be "group tty", or mesg needs to be fixed to work if
> the group is also me...?
At the moment it is not possible. I will fix this in the next week or two.
If you want a temporary solution then remove group tty (then "mesg y" will
make the device mode 666).
I will file a bug report against devfsd for the benefit of other people
investigating it.
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