Uh "mesg y" was not it. I would've spotted something that obvious. I did some digging found out that the tty's were in the group tty, so added the users that needed wall access to the group, and it works now.. I suppose this is a bit more secure than the default redhat where any user can write to your tty port. thx tho
Crap, sorry about that last message...
"Karl Hiramoto" <karl@hiramoto.org> writes:
wall works, but you have to be root.
Perhaps they default mesg to n?
try mesg y.
From the man page:
The mesg utility is invoked by a users to control write access others have to the terminal device associated with the standard error output. Write access is allowed by default, and programs such as talk(1) and write(1) may display messages on the terminal.
Options available:
n Disallows messages.
y Permits messages to be displayed.
-- Josh Huber
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