Re: Permissions with /dev/console

[Ognyan Kulev]

Marco Gerards wrote:
> "Jose Luis Alarcon Sanchez" <jlalarcon@tandilnet.zzn.com> writes:
> > login: chown: /dev/console: Operation not permitted
>
> I
> don't know the side effects of this, but I have not noticed any
> drawbacks.

There is one drawback.  If Hurd console is not used, after login of 
non-root user, screen can't be run, because it wants to do change stuff 
with /dev/console.

Regards,
ogi