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Re: Status update on replacing Athena login with PAM modules
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Basch)
Tue Feb 7 16:00:34 2006
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> I tried to run the stock xconsole program, but it only
> complains that it cannot open the console, even when run as
> root
The problem here is that xconsole does not allocate its pty
properly. This is a known bug, and is apparently fixed
upstream; hopefully the fix will appear in a future RHEL4
update. See:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=157471
Bob
