user owns login tty

Doug Gwyn gwyn at smoke.brl.mil
Tue Dec 4 01:43:45 AEST 1990


In article <1174 at aut.autelca.ascom.ch> dhuber at aut.autelca.ascom.ch (Daniel Huber) writes:
>Whenever somebody logs in on the system console he owns the device
>/dev/console.  He can do everything with it. Even delete it.

He shouldn't be able to unlink it if he doesn't have write permission
on /dev.



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