[lxc-users] Cannot reach login prompt when root mapped to host user id

[Tomassino Ferrauto]

On 23 May 2015 at 12:45, Tomassino Ferrauto <t_ferrauto at yahoo.it> wrote:
[...]
> What seems strange to me is the group 5 (host tty group) and the
> different permissions (see below) for tty* and console. For
> comparison, here are the permission of files in /dev in a container
> where also root is mapped to a higher uid (and that doesn't have the
> problem with the login prompt)
[...]

Indeed changing (from the host) the group of /dev/tty and /dev/console
to tty in the container (id 1017509) after starting it, makes the
login prompt appear. I wonder why the permissions are wrong at the
beginning...

        Tomassino