[vconsole-discuss] Proposal for active link in VT

2007-07-05 Thread Darren J Moffat
in the symlink ? Why can't the logindevperm code just query if the current VT is the active one, without needing a symlink ? -- Darren J Moffat

[security-discuss] Re: [vconsole-discuss] pam_securetty module for OpenSolaris

2006-11-01 Thread Darren J Moffat
Joerg Barfurth wrote: Darren J Moffat schrieb: Alan Coopersmith wrote: What will they need to do? (For some reason, the community xdm gdm sources passes the X display as the PAM_TTY value, so we'd either need to change them or add :0 to /etc/securetty. From looking at the dtlogin

[vconsole-discuss] help review updated virtual console spec

2006-10-31 Thread Darren J Moffat
Alan Coopersmith wrote: Darren J Moffat wrote: /dev/console could, I believe, be a serial line. That means that the console could be in a physically separate location to the usb attached keyboard/mouse and the monitor. In that case it may not be desirable that root can login on the /dev/vt

[vconsole-discuss] vconsole prototype yet ?

2006-07-11 Thread Darren J Moffat
Line Login with GDM and SMF. -- Darren J Moffat

[vconsole-discuss] /dev/console output

2006-05-24 Thread Darren J Moffat
Riny Qian wrote: Darren J Moffat wrote: On the project page there is the following bullet: * /dev/console serves as the current active console, that is, any output via /dev/console will go to current active console. I don't think that is necessarily the correct behaviour. It also

[vconsole-discuss] /dev/console output

2006-05-24 Thread Darren J Moffat
but instead about proving additional tty's that are available from the machines primary keyboard mouse and screen; they are accessed via a magic key sequence. I believe that is what the expectation is on other platforms. -- Darren J Moffat