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Re: [linux-security] tty chowning
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Miquel van Smoorenburg)
Thu Oct 17 02:35:01 1996
From: Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>
To: dholland@eecs.harvard.edu (David Holland)
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 10:53:37 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: linux-security@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu, dholland@burgundy.eecs.harvard.edu
In-Reply-To: <199610100522.BAA17878@burgundy.eecs.harvard.edu> from "David Holland" at Oct 10, 96 01:22:19 am
You (David Holland) wrote:
> About a month ago I mentioned a way to handle tty chowning without
> being root. Unfortunately, it had some problems.
>
> Here's another shot:
>
> Make an ioctl on the pty end that does the chowning.
>
> ioctl(pty_fd, TIOCCHOWN, path)
I think it's a good idea. Good enough for noone to comment on it any more :)
I think you should just create the patch for the Linux-2.1.x tree and
send it to Linus or post it on the linux-kernel mailing list. Or here?
Mike.
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