On Sat, 14 Mar 2015 00:00:34 +0100, wabenbau@gmail.com wrote:

> > /dev/tty1 is already group writeable, so you should get the same
> > result by adding your user to the tty group.  
> 
> When I logged in as regular user then ownership of the tty that I
> used for log in is:
> 
> crw------- 1 wabe tty  4,  1 13. Mär 17:49 /dev/tty1
> 
> When I logged in as root, then owner is root (not surprising).
> 
> crw------- 1 root  tty  4,  2 13. Mär 23:47 /dev/tty2

Interesting, here, as a normal user:

% ls -l /dev/tty1
crw--w---- 1 root tty 4, 1 Mar 13 22:26 /dev/tty1

> So it seems that after login you first have to chmod 770 the tty before
> you do a su - user (user have to be in group tty of course).
> 
> Maybe it would ease things when you write a little script for this
> procedure.

A udev rule would be less kludgy.


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Neil Bothwick

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