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From: csa29@seq1.kl.ac.uk (Athula Herath)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.sun,comp.windows.open-look
Subject: /dev/tty[*] owned by root (in suntools & OL)
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Date: 15 Apr 91 13:00:39 GMT
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Reply-To: csa29@seq1.kl.ac.uk (Athula Herath)
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Hi,


I have a question on ownership of tty's. If one invokes the shelltool (to get
a shell window) OL and Suntools puts the ownership of the tty (say
/dev/ttyp1) to root (and make it world writable). At least my machine
does this. Is this supposed to be so? My problem is I can't invoke 'biff'
or 'mesg n' in these windows (among other things).

We run SUN-OS 4.1, and OLWM 2.0.

Is there any way to change this setup, or if we change this, is there
any other consequences ?


You advice is greatly appreciated.


Many Thanks,


Athula.