user owns login tty

Sean Eric Fagan sef at kithrup.COM
Mon Dec 3 12:25:27 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.
>Even delete it.

The only way a user can delete (unlink) a file is if (s)he has write access
to the directory in which the file resides.  Just because /dev/console is
owned by a user, this alone does not mean said user can delete the file.

Check the permissions on /dev.

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