Preventing remote graphics use

Ted Wilcox ted at bangles.sgi.com
Thu Oct 26 09:38:28 AEST 1989


In article <Oct.24.20.19.40.1989.26786 at topaz.rutgers.edu> elkins at topaz.rutgers.edu (George Elkins) writes:
>Idea: whenever a person logs in thru the console, just
>	chmod go-w /dev/console
>and then only the current console login can write to
>that device.  Would this work?

Nope.  This would only prevent anyone else from sending text to the
console wsh window on the screen.  Everyone would still have access to any
graphics program.

Ted.
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