tty's and no login

[Matteo Riondato]

On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 12:37:00AM +0200, Cole wrote:
> Yeah.
> 
> That does help quite a lot. However, I did find something regarding this called own-tty, but that
> was for linux, and also written in like 1998.
> http://www.canonical.org/~kragen/sw/usershell.html
> 
> I was actually hoping to do something similar. In that I was hoping to just write a single program
> to take control of the terminal and all me to use it for my input/output directly. Ive tried the
> above program, but it does complain about "TIOCSCTTY: Operation not permitted". Anyone have any
> ideas about what exactly needs to be done to get the own-tty.c program to function correctly under
> FreeBSD?

Is watch(8) what you need?

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