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Re: permission problems



on Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 04:52:20AM +0700, Umum Wijoyo (umum@lola.ee.itb.ac.id) wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> After I do an upgrade, I always experience users being able to do a
> "wall" (quite annoying!), and other programs there not supposed to. 
> Why is this? How come the permissions get screwed up? How can I
> handle/prevent this? Should I check every program/binary and do a chmod
> accordingly? 

Users can typically 'wall', but you should be able to block all but root
from displaying to your sessions with the command 'mesg n'.

...or am I missing something?

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