[95] in linux-security and linux-alert archive
Re: tty permissions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (R.E.Wolff@et.tudelft.nl)
Fri Mar 10 11:08:33 1995
To: linux-security@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1995 13:02:05 +0100 (MET)
In-Reply-To: <9503100733.AA17469=aeb@zeus.cwi.nl> from "Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl" at Mar 10, 95 08:33:45 am
From: R.E.Wolff@et.tudelft.nl
Reply-To: linux-security@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu
>
> (I, and most people I know, have had "mesg n" in .profile the past
> twenty years or so; giving people write permission to your tty
> alows them to log you off ("stty 0 < /dev/tty1"), or do very obscure
You correctly indicate that stty operates on its INPUT.
Giving people write permission on your tty doesn't affect this.
Roger.
