* Michael Schutte , 2009-04-05 10:41:
This is true. It doesn’t only affect fgconsole, but also chvt, openvt
and any other kbd utility which tries to get a console file descriptor.
These programs do their job by trying to open/ioctl these files (in
this order):
/proc/self/fd/0
On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 02:03:00PM +0200, Mauro Sacchetto wrote:
> Il domenica 5 aprile 2009 10:41:46 Michael Schutte ha scritto:
> > This is true. It doesn’t only affect fgconsole, but also chvt, openvt
> > and any other kbd utility which tries to get a console file descriptor.
> [cut]
> > As non
Il domenica 5 aprile 2009 10:41:46 Michael Schutte ha scritto:
> This is true. It doesn’t only affect fgconsole, but also chvt, openvt
> and any other kbd utility which tries to get a console file descriptor.
[cut]
> As none of these is able to respond to a VT_GETSTATE ioctl, fgconsole
> and frien
retitle 522453 non-root users cannot access the console from X
tags 522453 + wontfix
thanks
Hi Mauro,
Thanks for your report.
On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 10:51:11PM +0200, Mauro Sacchetto wrote:
> When I enter in a console, fgconsole works always fine.
> If I launch after the X-server, fgconsole wor
Package: kbd
Version: 1.15-1
When I enter in a console, fgconsole works always fine.
If I launch after the X-server, fgconsole works again.
But if I enter with automatic login in X-server as simple user
(I use KDE), fgconsole does work no more:
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