Don't know specifically about gentoo, but try the 'write' or 'talk' command instead of 'wall', but that'll go only to speified users. Karl Hiramoto wrote:

Anyone know how to allow users other than root to wall messages to other logins?

wall "test" only displays to other users if doing it from root.

Do i need to be in a certain group?

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"Karl Hiramoto" <karl@hiramoto.org> writes:

I've had the wall behavior before broadcasting to allusers work before on other distro's (slackware & redhat) but now on gentoo it seems to be locked down.

talk works, but instead of "talk user" you need to specify "talk user@localhost"

wall works, but you have to be root.

...

Don't know specifically about gentoo, but try the 'write' or 'talk' command instead of 'wall', but that'll go only to speified users.

Karl Hiramoto wrote:

...

Anyone know how to allow users other than root to wall messages to other logins?

wall "test" only displays to other users if doing it from root.

Do i need to be in a certain group?

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-- Josh Huber

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:

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wall works, but you have to be root.

Perhaps they default mesg to n?

try mesg y.

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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.

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