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Re: permissions of tty devices



On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 15:53, Pawel Wiecek wrote:
> On Jul 31,  3:46pm, Russell Coker wrote:
> > Should I setup devfsd to default to changing the pseudo-tty devices to
> > gr= oup=20
> > "tty"?
>
> I guess utils like write will not work without it...

That depends on mesg.  If mesg would make the device world writable instead 
of tty group writable then write etc would work fine without it.

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