Re: "write" and tty device perms

2006-05-16 Thread Archaic
On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 01:39:16PM +0600, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > > No, this default simply means "please don't clobber my screen". A person > who wants to receive messages must run "mesg y". Again, this isn't consistent with /dev/pts. For a default, the 2 should be the same. > Of course

Re: "write" and tty device perms

2006-05-16 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Archaic wrote: Util-linux installs the write program sgid to the tty group. In order to use this program, however, /etc/login.defs needs one modification. TTYPERM 0600 needs to be TTYPERM 0620 Since we already sed login.defs during its installation, I propose adding this to the

Re: "write" and tty device perms

2006-05-15 Thread Archaic
On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 07:21:34PM -0600, Archaic wrote: > > TTYPERM 0600 > needs to be > TTYPERM 0620 I forgot to mention that 620 is how the book sets up /dev/pts as well. -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your operating system? Hardened Linux From Scratch