On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 01:11, Borsenkow Andrej wrote: > > when I run rxvt/xterm/konsole/gnome-terminal, my pseudoterminals at > > /dev/pts/* does not own group "tty" so I cannot use > > % mesg y > > mesg: error: tty device is not owned by group `tty' > > > > and users cannot "talk" to each other. > > > > When I log on text console, permission for /dev/vc/* are owned by > > group tty so talk here works. > > > > Is it problem with devfs? pam? init? > > Well, I am really confused here. > > - permissions for console (/dev/tty*) are (most probably) set either by > mingetty or by login. Neither pam nor devfsd are responsible for them.
Here's an extract from the default devfsd.conf for Debian: # set the group to "tty" of the pseudo-tty device. This is necessary for # correct operation of mesg(1). REGISTER ^pts/.* PERMISSIONS -1.tty 0600 This allows "mesg" to work as expected and seems to be working well for all Debian devfsd users! -- http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/projects.html Projects I am working on http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page
