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Re: Permissions with /dev/console
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Marco Gerards |
Subject: |
Re: Permissions with /dev/console |
Date: |
Wed, 11 Aug 2004 23:34:03 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) |
"Jose Luis Alarcon Sanchez" <jlalarcon@tandilnet.zzn.com> writes:
> My first question to the list is about a message getting at
> the time of login into the system: after login user and
> Password i get this:
>
> login: chown: /dev/console: Operation not permitted
That is a known bug.
> and after the prompt is there and working well...
>
> Why this message?. What importance have it?. Are there a
> way of solve this?.
This message is caused by the incorrect permissions on /bin/login. I
don't know the side effects of this, but I have not noticed any
drawbacks.
It might be interesting to figure out why everything works perfectly,
even when the permissions are not correct.
You can fix this using: "chmod u+s /bin/login".
> Sorry if my questions don't have a high level. I hope
> some day in the future i will can help to develop GNU/Hurd.
No problem, that is what the help-hurd list is for.
--
Marco