BSD tty security, part 3: How to Fix It

[Mike Beede]

psl at segue.segue.com (Peter Langston) writes:

>As it stands now, you can allow write access long enough for a friend to
>initiate a write(1) and then turn off write access and discourage any other
>interruption, (i.e. you can discriminate among users temporally).

If you want to descriminte between users, why not _do_ that instead of
using the kludge of turning message access on and off?  Have a
mechanism with smaller granularity (users instead of yes/no).

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