site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com Dkim-signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:mime-version:received:in-reply-to :references:from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=YDIT8m2XkI/+zDL/FPF8vpHrjLMbgkiLZ2gNF6eXPTM=; b=cFKlTvmFCQLxzP8cRvxsAudff2Zc/VcvdBCaUYd7zZjQjPTJk1rxkaEt5IUMijxp3H oVhdv44MHZDppwjDxqSDXxsYdlprDa6C9yF1Tks02iCal1xqaDOF6ltv5OuT5OqIXP7g Csy7I3CjAaOCoKNBPZdc4J/Jv7hBXri/QcgDg= Domainkey-signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=JPb7zvazccuPbOlpjaOLOLlrUOdB06pH3AM1u6P/XaYygtydeE7ekcAz1iebnuG6aK 03rptp8YWf7AUYndJKrtSeHKR4B44W8MAyOr5slL55wpbhTzAGV4DYMTNm2j+dDwNpPK GOXeHmNaq9dznCWj+CFx2kHqxGPcjIGfIwN1U= I wonder what the ownership of /dev/console changes to when there are 0 logged in users? root:wheel ? It definitely works when switching between logged in users: janitors-Mac-mini:~ janitor$ while ls -lsa /dev/console; do sleep 1; done 0 crw------- 1 janitor staff 0, 0 21 Aug 01:40 /dev/console 0 crw------- 1 janitor staff 0, 0 21 Aug 01:40 /dev/console 0 crw------- 1 janitor staff 0, 0 21 Aug 01:40 /dev/console 0 crw------- 1 janitor staff 0, 0 21 Aug 01:40 /dev/console 0 crw------- 1 janitor staff 0, 0 21 Aug 01:40 /dev/console 0 crw------- 1 janitor staff 0, 0 21 Aug 01:40 /dev/console 0 crw------- 1 janitor staff 0, 0 21 Aug 01:40 /dev/console 0 crw------- 1 janitor staff 0, 0 21 Aug 01:40 /dev/console 0 crw------- 1 janitor staff 0, 0 21 Aug 01:40 /dev/console 0 crw------- 1 janitor staff 0, 0 21 Aug 01:40 /dev/console 0 crw------- 1 janitor staff 0, 0 21 Aug 01:40 /dev/console 0 crw------- 1 janitor staff 0, 0 21 Aug 01:40 /dev/console 0 crw------- 1 id staff 0, 0 21 Aug 01:40 /dev/console 0 crw------- 1 id staff 0, 0 21 Aug 01:40 /dev/console 0 crw------- 1 id staff 0, 0 21 Aug 01:40 /dev/console 0 crw------- 1 id staff 0, 0 21 Aug 01:40 /dev/console 0 crw------- 1 id staff 0, 0 21 Aug 01:40 /dev/console 0 crw------- 1 id staff 0, 0 21 Aug 01:40 /dev/console 0 crw------- 1 id staff 0, 0 21 Aug 01:40 /dev/console 0 crw------- 1 id staff 0, 0 21 Aug 01:40 /dev/console 0 crw------- 1 id staff 0, 0 21 Aug 01:40 /dev/console 0 crw------- 1 id staff 0, 0 21 Aug 01:40 /dev/console 0 crw------- 1 id staff 0, 0 21 Aug 01:40 /dev/console 0 crw------- 1 id staff 0, 0 21 Aug 01:40 /dev/console 0 crw------- 1 id staff 0, 0 21 Aug 01:40 /dev/console 0 crw------- 1 id staff 0, 0 21 Aug 01:40 /dev/console 0 crw------- 1 janitor staff 0, 0 21 Aug 01:40 /dev/console 0 crw------- 1 janitor staff 0, 0 21 Aug 01:40 /dev/console 0 crw------- 1 janitor staff 0, 0 21 Aug 01:40 /dev/console 0 crw------- 1 janitor staff 0, 0 21 Aug 01:40 /dev/console 0 crw------- 1 janitor staff 0, 0 21 Aug 01:40 /dev/console 0 crw------- 1 janitor staff 0, 0 21 Aug 01:40 /dev/console 0 crw------- 1 janitor staff 0, 0 21 Aug 01:40 /dev/console 0 crw------- 1 janitor staff 0, 0 21 Aug 01:40 /dev/console ^C janitors-Mac-mini:~ janitor$ So a big thumbs up :) On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Antoine Missout <antoine.missout@metakine.com> wrote:

Am I missing something or can't I just check who owns /dev/console ?

http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/technotes/tn2005/tn2083.html "The console user is the user whose GUI login session is using the console. The console device, /dev/console, is owned by the console user."

Seems simple enough...

- Antoine

On Aug 20, 2010, at 8:45 AM, Quinn The Eskimo! wrote:

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If it was possible to get the answer in another manner directly from the daemon without relying on the agents, that'd be much better.

Not in any well supported fashion.

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