Hello,

I'm sorry, I caused unnecessarily confusion. 
The complete input/output:

% /etc/init.d/portfwd start
wsconsctl: /dev/wskbd0: Permission denied
Starting portfwd.

I write this start script. If I start the portfwd without this start
script, no message appears. This message comes from the NetBSD startup
mechanism and it has nothing to do with the portfwd daemon. I got the
line
	wsconsctl -k -w encoding=de.nodead
in my /etc/rc.conf file. If I try to execute this line separately (with
normal user rights) this message appears likewise.
	
And now you can stone me to death...
;-(

Be that as it may, the portfwd daemon doesn't forks if I start it with
normal user rights. At the moment, it only forks and accept incomming
traffic, if it has root rights on my system. There is a discussion forum
about the portfwd daemon on the net. If I don't find a solution I will
ask there.

Many thanks again! 

regards
oliver


Am Mo, 2004-02-02 um 13.16 schrieb netbsd@wolfnode.de:
> On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Jesper Louis Andersen wrote:
> 
> > Quoting netbsd@wolfnode.de (netbsd@wolfnode.de):
> > > I don't know why he gets that message. I compiled this again and it
> > > IS a really fine peace of software!
> >
> > After what I have read in this thread, I think otherwise. Unless you
> > can justify that a portforwarder needs access to the keyboard.
> >
> > --
> > j.
> >
> 
> Hm, it's just that I think something else must be wrong with his system,
> this thing does NOT ask for access to the device on my systems (run as
> non-root).
> There's not too much code and I didn't have a deep look yet but I don't think
> it's a spy (but I'm wrong, maybe).
> 
> Florian