The default permission for /dev/console (which is linked to /devices/pseudo/cn@0:console)
is 620 (crw--w---). What I'm trying to do is to login to CDE as user1 and start a shell
script such as dbstart for ORACLE as user2. When doing so, I want to output the messages
on the console window so I have redirected the output of the shell script to /dev/console.
( # $ORACLE_HOME/bin/dbstart > /dev/console 2&>1 & )
But because the permission for /dev/console is denied for user2, the action won't be
permitted. To solve this, I have changed the permission of /devices/pseudo/cn@0:console
to 666 (crw-rw-rw).
This has solved the problem.

But since I have changed the default setting which I presume won't be changed unlikely,
would there be any major problem I should worry about by doing this ?
Or maybe I shouldn't have done this in the first place ?

Any advice will be appreciated.

Thanks,
FB