[Users] error on login

[Mantelle Johan]

Yes in effect , my error is in /etc/bashrc :

This line 

mesg y

-> mesg: error: tty device is not owned by group `tty'

Regards
Mantelle johan

-----Original Message-----
From: users-bounces at openvz.org [mailto:users-bounces at openvz.org] On Behalf Of Kir Kolyshkin
Sent: lundi 12 février 2007 15:11
To: users at openvz.org
Subject: Re: [Users] error on login

This does not looks like something specific to OpenVZ. Still, let me guess.

"tty device" here is not /dev/tty, but either /dev/ttyp* and /dev/ptyp*, or some entry under /dev/pts.

"mesg" is a program to enable/disable receiving messages from other users. It is probably called from one of user's login scripts (/etc/bashrc, /etc/bash_login, /etc/profile or something like that, or their ~/. analogs). This programs is _possibly_ SGID to group tty (run 'ls -l $(which mesg)' to check that), and tries to change the mode of one or several above mentioned files. Since files doesn't belong to group tty, mesg complains.

This problem is most probably the problem of a given distribution.

Regards,
Kir.

José David Bravo Álvarez wrote:
> [root at sanson cpbackup]# vzctl enter 101 entered into VE 101
> mesg: error: tty device is not owned by group `tty'
> root at gedeon [/]#
>
> root at gedeon [/]# ls -l /dev/tty
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 5, 0 Dec 15 2005 /dev/tty
>
> Any idea? thanks for your help.
>

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