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[Ted Ozolins]

Joel Hammer wrote:

>I don't know nuthin' about devfs, but, when I start up kde with kdm, a
>multiuser session, the following script runs in 
>/etc/X11/kdm 
> TakeConsole
>which is:
>#!/bin/sh
># Reassign ownership of the console to root, this should disallow
># assignment of console output to any random users's xterm
># $XConsortium: TakeConsole,v 1.2 93/09/28 14:30:29 gildea Exp $
># $Id: TakeConsole,v 1.3 1998/09/30 21:20:26 bieker Exp $
> 
> 
># This list _MUST_ be the same as in GiveConsole
>CONSOLE_DEVICES="console audio video radio cdrom dsp mixer vbi sequencer sequencer2 midi"
> 
>for i in $CONSOLE_DEVICES; do
>        chown --dereference root.root /dev/$i
>        chmod 600 /dev/$i
>done
>chmod 622 /dev/console             
>
>This has caused me great confusion. So, for example, I think it is assigning
>root ownership to some devices, which makes some software behave odd.
>There may be a similar thing in yours.
>When kde exits, maybe it is updating your configuration file, heh?
>
>Joel
>  
>
Unfortunately this happens as root or user... I guess I'll keep digging. 
I've found that under sound there is also a place to change this but to 
no avail.

-- 
Ted Ozolins (VE7TVO)
Westbank, B. C.

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