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Bug#705056: marked as done (/etc/default/devpts instructions to set "mesg n" by default don't work)

Your message dated Fri, 26 Jul 2019 16:39:41 +0200
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and subject line Re: Bug#705056: /etc/default/devpts instructions to set "mesg n" by default don't work
has caused the Debian Bug report #705056,
regarding /etc/default/devpts instructions to set "mesg n" by default don't work
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Package: initscripts,libc6

/etc/default/devpts reads:
# Set to 600 to have `mesg n' be the default
TTYMODE=620
But this doesn't really work. Even if you mount /dev/pts with mode=600, your pty devices will end up with 620 permissions. This is because well-behaved software calls grantpt(), which changes the device permissions.
Either grantpt() should be fixed not to touch permissions if /dev/pts is a devpts fs (as it did in the past[0]) or initscripts should be fixed not to claim you can have "mesg n" by default. 


[0] http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=292e3abebff9f94ca47c1a725a691cb6ed6cff5f

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Source: glibc
Source-Version: 2.21-4


[2013-04-09 17:13] Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>

/etc/default/devpts reads:
# Set to 600 to have `mesg n' be the default
TTYMODE=620
But this doesn't really work. Even if you mount /dev/pts with mode=600, your pty devices will end up with 620 permissions. This is because well-behaved software calls grantpt(), which changes the device permissions. 
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* Dmitry Bogatov <KAction@debian.org>, 2019-07-25, 19:07:
I just tried this -- remounted /dev/pts with mode=600 and started dvtm(1) and stterm(1). This resulted in /dev/pts/{0,1} with $USER:tty, 600. So to be `TTYMODE' seems to work. 

This has been fixed in glibc; see bug #806882.

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