Re: /dev/tty perms for xlinks2

[Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>]

Kent West <westk@acu.edu> wrote:

> A few days ago xlinks2 was mentioned on this list and I decided to
> give it a try.
> 
> When I try to run it from within X as a normal user, no problem.
> 
> When I try to run it outside of X as root, no problem.
> 
> When I try to run it outside of X as a normal user, I get an error
> about opening /dev/tty0 because of permission issues.
> 
> westk@canuhold:~$ ls -l /dev/tty0
> crw-rw---- 1 root root 4, 0 2007-03-07 10:04 /dev/tty0
> 
> I could change the group to "tty" or something and then add my normal 
> user into that group, but is there perhaps a
> better/safer/more-canonical way?

Interesting. On my system:

ls -l /dev/tty2
crw------- 1 amp77 tty 4, 2 2007-03-27 23:20 /dev/tty2

What are you running (stable, testing, ...?)

Regards,
Andrei
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