CONSOLE_GROUPS floppy:audio:video:cdrom

It, those, works just fine in tty6

But in konsole on Xwin on KDE it is without those.

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I was afraid to do in the .bashrc, thus:

export CONSOLE_GROUPS=$CONSOLE_GROUPS:floppy:audio:video:cdrom
))

for fear that doing so might make it all happen twice in tty6

I was afraid to source the /etc/login.defs
(maybe I need to?)

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Alan.

Sourcing should work fine and if it happens twice that won't hurt either.

Sourcing (in the .bashrc) caused bunch of errors when launch a (KDE) Konsole . . .

bunch of "command not found"'s

so called "commands" were the environment variables from the /etc/login.defs

Evidently it thought those were commands.

(I didn't try it, the id command) to see if I'd acquired the extra groups like I do have in tty6

export (in the .bashrc) as per my previous post, didn't work, did not get me in Konsole the extra groups memberships that tty6 has for me.

Anyone? Other ideas?

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Alan.

I just now discovered that:

Possible Slack 11.0 bug? Please read at least the next three paragraphs. Especially so I ask of the guru's and those who help Mr. Volderki.

(as at bottom enclosed, startx makes a KDE Konsole have the CONSOLE_GROUPS whereas if instead I use a run level 4 in inittab then the same KDE Konsole *does not* have the CONSOLE_GROUPS)

I *like* having the CONSOLE_GROUPS (perhaps I'll revert back to using startx instead of having run level 4 in inittab)

Why the difference? Shouldn't there be consistency in how X and KDE (Konsole in KDE) performs irregardless of how X got started up?

Is this perhaps a Slackware 11.0 bug?
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Since I'd had run level 4 in inittab, I have a KDM logon.

And, that said, in KDE, when I use a konsole, the /etc/login.defs (CONSOLE_GROUPS floppy:audio:video:cdrom) *do not* exist in such konsole.
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(1.) I logged out of my KDE session. (2) I Logged onto tty6 as root. (3) As root, entered command: telinit 3 (4) Now in run level 3 (I checked, and nothing exists or is on ctrl-alt-F7 where KDM and/or KDE resides).

Ah, (many) *more* tty's now (smile) -- when we were in run level 4 we only had one tty which is tty6.

I think, in inittab I'll add tty5 to run level 4. Anyone do this, any prob with this, two tty's (5 and 6) while in run level 4.
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Ok, *here's the big discovery*:

In tty1 logged in as user, I run startx

And now in KDE when I use a konsole the /etc/login.defs (CONSOLE_GROUPS floppy:audio:video:cdrom) *do exist* in such konsole.

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Alan.

BTW, startx keeps all of the tty's

Now in KDE, I have all of the tty's that were in run level 3

So, startx gets the CONSOLE_GROUPS into a KDE Konsole *and* (smile) it has me lots of tty's whereas (the next, yucky) a run level 4 in inittab makes me lose out on both the tty's and the CONSOLE_GROUPS into a KDE Konsole.

What gives?

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Alan.

startx is quite a bit different then the daemon that starts for runlevel 4

but as for loosing the ttys that weird

By default, run level 4 only has one console running (tty6). You can change which consoles are available in which run levels by editing /etc/inittab and searching for lines that start with c1, c2, c3, etc. and modifying the run levels field.

If you are running a desktop manager (xdm, kdm, gdm), the only way (sans PAM) you're going to get users to be in groups (other than their primary group, which is by default 'users') is to add them manually to the relevant groups in /etc/group.