talk problem

[Tom Mitchell]

On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 08:33:18AM +0530, Jeetendra Mirchandani wrote:
>
>i have the service running, and i have opened the port 517 in my firewall
>configuration
>
>netstat -l shows
>udp        0      0 *:talk                  *:*
>
>mesg y gives the error:
>
>mesg: error: tty device is not owned by group `tty'
>
>how do i configure the tty permissions?

The normal defaults should be fine.

By chance have you been tinkering with security settings?
Or tinkering in the /dev directory (MAKEDEV).  


Note that it is possible to change the group so "mesg y" will fail but
not change it back unless you are root or group tty.  Example:
     $ chown me.me /dev/pts/4
     $ chown me.tty /dev/pts/4
     chown: changing ownership of `/dev/pts/4': Operation not permitted
So if you mess up tty permissions they you may need to toss it and
get a new pseudo terminal device.

If getting a new terminal window does not get good permissions I will
have to dig and find how they are set for pseudo ttys in the first
place.  Perhaps someone just knows.....



Regards,
TomM
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