Re: [gentoo-user] Screen: Cannot open your terminal '/dev/tty1' - please check [Update]

[Alan McKinnon]

On 14/03/2015 20:53, Matti Nykyri wrote:
>> On Mar 14, 2015, at 12:47, German <gentgerman@×××××.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, 14 Mar 2015 10:33:59 +0000
>> Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, 14 Mar 2015 06:08:34 -0400, German wrote:
>>>
>>>>> Forget about "chmod 770". Better do a "chmod g+rw". :-)
>>>>
>>>> Tried it, it also doesn't stay permanently. OK, no solution :(
>>>
>>> The correct solution is a udev rule, but it appears that something may be
>>> overriding that when you login.
>>
>> I have the same udev rule. Yes, something is overriding it.
>>
>> A kludgy solution is to add the chmod
>>> command to ~/.bash_profile.
>
> Don't hit your head to a brick wall. A small strace to the login process reveals that login set things as you tell it to in /etc/login.defs
>
> In this file change the line:
> TTYPERM 0600
> To:
> TTYPERM 0620
>
> And your problem is fixed.
>
> The problem has nothing to do with udev. If you don't like a volatile /dev just remove udev and create everything you wan't by hand (not recommended ;)
>
> Another thing i'm puzzled by is, why do you wan't to login as root and the su to someone else? I usually do it the other way around...
>


There is a use-case for doing it (but I highly doubt the OP is using it)

Take a system user like eg sybase or rancid. You can't run those apps as
root (it messes with permissions etc, and some scripts detect EUID 0 and
refuse to run). The sybase and rancid users can't log in at all, and the
system is set up so I can't su as me to that account directly. So I have
to go from my login account to root then drop privs to the system user.

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Alan McKinnon
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