From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269740AbUHZXJf (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 19:09:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266198AbUHZXJS (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 19:09:18 -0400 Received: from mail.kroah.org ([69.55.234.183]:41947 "EHLO perch.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269688AbUHZXCj (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 19:02:39 -0400 Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 16:02:04 -0700 From: Greg KH To: ismail d?nmez Cc: Martin Schlemmer , Paul Fulghum , Linux Kernel Mailing List , olh@suse.org Subject: Re: 2.6.8.1-mm1 Tty problems? Message-ID: <20040826230204.GD12762@kroah.com> References: <2a4f155d040817070854931025@mail.gmail.com> <412247FF.5040301@microgate.com> <2a4f155d0408171116688a87f1@mail.gmail.com> <4122501B.7000106@microgate.com> <2a4f155d04081712005fdcdd9b@mail.gmail.com> <412272C8.6050203@microgate.com> <1092778561.8998.18.camel@nosferatu.lan> <2a4f155d040817224449ef0874@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2a4f155d040817224449ef0874@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 > > 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