On Mon, 10 Mar 1997, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> This should be in the FAQ, but I couldn't find it.
> 
> You need to compile a console with "options UCONSOLE" for a non-root
> user to be able to re-direct the console output.
> 
> So you can live with needing to be root, or compile your own kernel.
> It's a security feature which can only be configured at compilation.

Well, that's not the whole story... even if you have "options UCONSOLE", 
xconsole still won't work unless you're root. I got the xconsole source 
and found a place where it's making sure it's either being run as root, 
or the current user owns /dev/console. #ifdef-ing that check out makes 
everything work fine... I've got a copy of the patched xconsole if anyone 
wants it.

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