Re: permissions of tty devices

["Pawel Wiecek" <coven@vmh.net>]

On Jul 31,  4:15pm, Russell Coker wrote:
> > I guess utils like write will not work without it...
> That depends on mesg.  If mesg would make the device world writable inste=
> ad=20
> of tty group writable then write etc would work fine without it.

Yes, but:
 1. it doesn't
 2. would you REALLY like anyone to be able to write tou your terminal with
    cat? I wouldn't.

        Pawel

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