BSD tty security, part 4: What You Can Look Forward To

[Neil Rickert]

In article <1991Apr30.224740.17040 at pcserver2.naitc.com> kdenning at pcserver2.naitc.com (Karl Denninger) writes:
>
>The most obvious attempts, taking over "unused" ptys slave ends, result in
>the system skipping them when assignment time comes around.  This prevents
>
>The RS/6000 dynamically creates ptys, and thus doesn't suffer from the
>problem at all.

 And what exactly is there to stop somebody running a daemon which grabs
access to a pty immediately after it has been assigned, or immediately
after it has been dynamically created, but before public write access has
been turned off.


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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert at cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
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