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Re: wall again (SysVinit-2.64-3)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Elliot Lee)
Sun Oct 27 18:26:06 1996
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 18:23:13 -0500 (EST)
From: Elliot Lee <sopwith@cuc.edu>
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On Sun, 27 Oct 1996, Erik Troan wrote:
> 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.
A more traditional & safer alternative would be to make it setGID 'tty'.
Hope this helps,
-- Elliot
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