On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 10:13:11AM -0500, Alexander Wallace wrote: > Ok, now... Ytalk is working... Here is what is happennig... When I do a > ytalk to the extra user that was created form my when debian was > installed, that user gets promted to ytalk to the user requesting it... > But all other users that I created after, and root also, automatically > deny (they don't even get promted) a ytalk request.... Where do I change > that??? Thanks!
Ah, it sounds like they have restrictive terminal permissions. I think this is configured in /etc/default/devpts: # Set to 600 to have `mesg n' be the default TTYMODE=620 Users can still set 'mesg y' or 'mesg n' as they choose. Sounds like you want 'mesg y' (620). You'll need to remount /dev/pts to have this take effect. To avoid having to reboot and other such evil, try something like 'mount -o remount -t devpts devpts /dev/pts -ogid=5,mode=620' (set the number after ogid to be whatever TTYGRP says in /etc/default/devpts, but it's probably 5). /etc/default/devpts will sort this out in future. If that doesn't work, then perhaps users' shell startup files are setting 'mesg n'. /etc/profile and /etc/skel/* would be good places to look for the culprit for default settings. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
