>>>>>> "A" == A Arnold <arnold@zam331.zam.kfa-juelich.de> writes:
    A>   b) if you logged into the console, then /dev/console was
    A> chown'ed to
    >> you by /bin/login.

    A> The standard NetBSD 1.1 /etc/ttys configuration uses /dev/kd as
    A> device for console login, not /dev/console.  After a login on

  Hmm. Fix this then.

    A> console, /dev/console is still owned by root and has mode 622.

  Hmm. NetBSD lox.sandelman.ocunix.on.ca 1.2_ALPHA NetBSD 1.2_ALPHA (LOX) #2: Tue Jun  4 22:18:09 EDT 1996     root@l.ox.ottawa.on.ca:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/LOX i386

#
#       from: @(#)ttys  5.1 (Berkeley) 4/17/89
#       $Id: ttys,v 1.7 1994/07/31 08:44:32 mycroft Exp $
#
# name  getty                           type    status          comments
#
console "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"         pc3     off secure
ttyv0   "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"         pc3     on secure
tty00   "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600"   unknown off secure
tty01   "/usr/libexec/getty std.19200"  vt100 off 

  And: NetBSD amaterasu 1.2_ALPHA NetBSD 1.2_ALPHA (AMATERASU) #3: Sat Jun 22 19:52:19
EDT 1996     mcr@amaterasu:/w/netbsd/src/sys/arch/sun3/compile/AMATERASU sun3
a

#
# name  getty                           type    status          comments
#
# Note: you may want to change the "default" entry in /etc/gettytab
# to make "no parity" the default (add the :np: flag).
#
# Also: the console is one of: kd, ttya, ttyb
console "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600"   xterms  on secure
kd      "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600"   sun     off  secure
ttya    "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600"   xterms  off  secure
ttyb    "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600"   unknown off secure
ttyp0   none                            network