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Re: wall again (SysVinit-2.64-3)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joerg Mertin)
Mon Oct 28 21:42:12 1996
From: smurphy@stardust.bln.sub.org (Joerg Mertin)
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 19:17:02 +0100 (MET)
Reply-To: smurphy@antares.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.93.961027100441.12151r-100000@redhat.com> from Erik Troan at "Oct 27, 96 10:04:58 am"
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According to Erik Troan:
> 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.
Well, FWIW would never let wall run as suid root. It is a tool to be
used by the Sysadmin, and not by the users. Believe me, in a LiNUX
Cluster it makes life much easyer if disabled ;)
cu
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