Re: /dev/tty perms for xlinks2

[Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>]

Kent West <westk@acu.edu> wrote:

> Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > 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, ...?)
> >   
> 
> Etch
> 
> westk@canuhold:~$ ls -l /dev/tty2
> crw------- 1 westk tty 4, 2 2007-03-26 14:13 /dev/tty2
> 
> On this box, tty2 is the only file owned by me and the group tty; all 
> others are root.root (until you get to the tty[a..z] group, which is 
> then root.tty).
> 

I only checked tty2 because that's where I'm logged in and xlinks2
works (no mouse, but still). Or am I missing something? Just for
completeness:

$ ls -l /dev/tty0
crw-rw---- 1 amp77 amp77 4, 0 2007-03-27 22:03 /dev/tty0

$ id
uid=1000(amp77) gid=1000(amp77)
groups=20(dialout),24(cdrom),25(floppy),29(audio),30(dip),44(video),46(plugdev),1000(amp77)

Regards,
Andrei
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