Re: 2.6.8.1-mm1 Tty problems?

Greg KH
2004-08-26T23:09:35Z

On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 08:44:28AM +0300, ismail d?nmez wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 23:36:02 +0200, Martin Schlemmer <azarah@nosferatu.za.org>
> > He has the wrong permissions in
> > /etc/udev/permissions.d/50-udev.permissions (or whatever), or no
> > entry for it, and his default_mode (in /etc/udev/udev.conf) is very
> > restrictive, or he does not use pam_console (or using it with a
> > display manager?), or add some other explanation. Personally I would
> > just say that he/his_distribution should fix the shipped
> > udev.permissions.
>
> I run Slackware 10 and got this in /etc/udev/permissions.d/udev.permissions :
>
> # console devices
> console:root:tty:0600
> tty:root:tty:0666
> tty[0-9][0-9]*:root:tty:0660
> vc/[0-9]*:root:tty:0660
>
>
> But the real problem is not permissions but the fact that /dev/tty is
> a directory now not a character device. Is this intended? If yes this
> will break many userspace applications which will assume /dev/tty is a
> character device. Greg can you please comment?

/dev/tty is a char device on my system. Perhaps your rules files are
making that not happen properly.

thanks,

greg k-h