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Re: wall again (SysVinit-2.64-3)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik Troan)
Sun Oct 27 10:07:14 1996

Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 10:04:58 -0500 (EST)
From: Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
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In-Reply-To: <XFMail.961027100153.lfarkas@u-szeged.hu>
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On Sun, 27 Oct 1996, Farkas Levente wrote:

> Now you can include wall to the SysVinit-2.64-3 but it doesn't seem to work.
> I try as a simple user
> wall Hello
> but it made output only my terminal (others has mesg Y), and when I try to it
> as root than it is working, so I think it is some pam problem, but I can't
> modify anythink and would be nice if in default everybody can use wall, like
> everyone can use write.

Try making it suid root and see if that fixes the problem.

Erik

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