From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Harald Hoyer <harald@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:36:58 +0000
Subject: Re: console group owership
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Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Mar 10, Harald Hoyer <harald@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?idH9166
>> Summary: /dev/console should be owned by group tty
>>
>> what do you think?
> On Debian systems it has mode 600 and mesg does not complain, so I would
> start looking deeper at why mesg is complaining on Red Hat systems.
> 

sry, to have bothered the list.. the user should not have ended up with 
/dev/console as his tty in the first place.