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From: "Daniel J. O'Connor" <darius@dons.net.au>
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Subject: misc/screen port can't talk to TTYs
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>Number:         84212
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       sysutils/screen port can't talk to TTYs
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    cy
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Jul 28 08:00:33 GMT 2005
>Closed-Date:    Wed May 04 04:32:44 UTC 2011
>Last-Modified:  Wed May 04 04:32:44 UTC 2011
>Originator:     Daniel J. O'Connor
>Release:        FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD midget.dons.net.au 5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #2: Wed Jul 27 20:20:22 CST 2005 darius@midget.dons.net.au:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/MIDGET i386
>Description:
The screen 'cu' functionality does not work properly for non root users. It reports permission denied
when an attempt to open a TTY is made.

This problem does not manifest itself in 4.x, only 5.x and higher.

>How-To-Repeat:
Try and open a screen showing a serial port like so..
C-a :screen /dev/ucom0 9600

I get this in the status line ->
Cannot open line '/dev/ucom0' for R/W: Permission denied

I have permission to use /dev/ucom0..
crw-rw----  1 uucp  dialer  230, 128 Jul 27 23:59 /dev/ucom0
(I am in dialer)
cu -l /dev/ucom0 -s 9600 works fine.

>Fix:


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-ports-bugs->cy 
Responsible-Changed-By: vs 
Responsible-Changed-When: Thu Jul 28 12:35:24 GMT 2005 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Over to maintainer 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=84212 

From: Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@komquats.com>
To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org, darius@dons.net.au
Cc:  
Subject: Re: ports/84212: misc/screen port can't talk to TTYs
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 11:49:39 -0700

 I've been able to verify the problem under 5.4-STABLE. I will prepare my 
 testbed (P120 -- I need a faster computer) for 4.11-STABLE to verify under 
 that platform.
 
 
 Cheers,
 Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@komquats.com>
 Web:  http://www.komquats.com and http://www.bcbodybuilder.com
 FreeBSD UNIX:  <cy@FreeBSD.org>   Web:  http://www.FreeBSD.org
 BC Government:  <Cy.Schubert@gov.bc.ca>
 
     "Lift long enough and I believe arrogance is replaced by
     humility and fear by courage and selfishness by generosity
     and rudeness by compassion and caring."
         -- Dave Draper
 
 
 

From: Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@komquats.com>
To: bug-followup <bug-followup@freebsd.org>
Cc:  
Subject: Re: ports/84212: misc/screen port can't talk to TTYs
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 21:06:23 -0700

 Currently, the only solution I have would break the fix for PR/55326.
 
 
 -- 
 Cheers,
 Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@komquats.com>
 FreeBSD UNIX:  <cy@FreeBSD.org>   Web:  http://www.FreeBSD.org
 
 			e**(i*pi)+1=0
 
 
State-Changed-From-To: open->analyzed 
State-Changed-By: cy 
State-Changed-When: Tue Oct 30 04:51:08 UTC 2007 
State-Changed-Why:  
Testing a patch locally. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=84212 
State-Changed-From-To: analyzed->closed 
State-Changed-By: cy 
State-Changed-When: Wed May 4 04:31:48 UTC 2011 
State-Changed-Why:  
The solution to this PR would break the fix for PR/55326. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=84212 
>Unformatted:
