Re: mesg and devfs

[Wessel Dankers <wsl@fruit.eu.org>]

> You are correct!  I had mis-read the documentation on this issue (I thought 
> that the permissions only took names not numbers).

Actually -1 means: leave the current value alone.

> The next version of the devfsd package will have the following in it's 
> default config:
> REGISTER ^pts/ PERMISSIONS -1.tty 0600
> 
> Note that I don't turn on group write by default, but the administrator could 
> easily change this.

I would have suggested the same thing.

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Wessel Dankers <wsl@nl.linux.org>

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