On Thu, 06 Jan 2011 19:15:35 -0800 Craig Leres <le...@ee.lbl.gov> wrote:
> I recently upgraded my desktop from 7.2-RELEASE to 8.1-RELEASE and > noticed that I no longer get biff messages in my "console" xterm window. > I traced this to: > > xterm: cannot open console: Operation not permitted > > and see that the TIOCCONS code in tty_generic_ioctl() is checking for > PRIV_TTY_CONSOLE. So far so good. But I don't *any* code that ever > grants PRIV_TTY_CONSOLE! As far as I can tell it's now totally > impossible to ever set a terminal as a console TTY (even for root). This > ioctl has been effectively disabled. > > Shouldn't PRIV_TTY_CONSOLE be granted when a user logs onto /dev/ttyvX? > See the reply I just posted to current. If your xterm is setuid root it does work, because the privilege checking code doesn't look at the credential passed in. It's still a bug, but you can work around it. -- Gary Jennejohn _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
