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From: jrs@world.std.com (Rick Sladkey)
Subject: Re: 0.98: xterm as Console? (non root)
Date: 5 Oct 1992 23:07:31 GMT

>>>>> On 5 Oct 92 15:15:42 GMT, zie@lte.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de
>>>>> (Thomas Ziegler) said:

Thomas> I was upgrading from 0.97pl1 to 0.98 in the last days. Before
Thomas> I was able to use one xterm to see the ConsoleOutput (xterm -C
Thomas> ...) also as non root user. Now whith the 0.98-kernel this is
Thomas> only possible with root priviligies. I tried /dev/console c 4
Thomas> 1 and /dev/console c 4 0, but no diifference. I'm using the
Thomas> "old" x11v1.1

XTerm makes a check to see if /dev/console is owned by the uid of the
XTerm process. It only allows -C if this is true. To get -C to work
under Linux you must "chown user /dev/console" before you run X.

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