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From: rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler)
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Subject: Re: Who's on the console?
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Date: 1 Oct 90 12:53:11 GMT
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    How can you tell if the person running your program is logged in at the 
    console?

This will be easier in R5, but have your xdm run a special startup/reset
script for the server on the console.  Have the startup script chown
/dev/console to $USER, and have the reset script chown it back to root
and chmod it back to 622.