console grabbing in X

freebsd-stable at auscert.org.au freebsd-stable at auscert.org.au
Mon Aug 16 19:42:45 PDT 2004


Hi,

I'm not sure what this option allows:

# Allow ordinary users to take the console - this is useful for X.
options         UCONSOLE

I have this configured in my kernel config, but I still can't run xconsole
as a non-root user (program launches with "Couldn't open console" error).
Am I misunderstanding something?

thanks,
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