Debs: I'm testing out the fte editor included in Debian 2.0. It does an odd thing: I runs in some sort of "raw" mode, and needs r/w access to /dev/vcsa* devices. One of the effects is that you can't hit Alt-Fn to get to a different console; you have to hit Ctrl-Alt-Fn instead. A problem I have is that the permissions on the /dev/vcsa* devices are generally crx---------. This means that I can access the device as root, but when I go to run it as a regular user, the program won't run because it can't get r/w access to the device.
Two questions: 1) Is this a dangerous thing (I know of no other Linux editors that access the terminal this way)? 2) Is there a liability to changing the permissions on these device files so that regular users have r/w access to them? Thanks, Paul M. Foster
