Your message dated Sat, 16 Nov 2024 15:38:57 +0100 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Re: Bug#1087496: util-linux: mesg, write and wall unclean status has caused the Debian Bug report #1087496, regarding util-linux: mesg, write and wall unclean status to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Source: util-linux Version: 1:2.40.2-11 Severity: important In /usr/share/doc/util-linux/NEWS.Debian.gz: util-linux (2.40.2-11) unstable; urgency=medium * The mesg(1) and write(1) programs are no longer provided. It is believed chatting between users is nowadays done using more secure facilities. -- Chris Hofstaedtler <[email protected]> Wed, 13 Nov 2024 12:58:06 +0100 There are two issues: 1. mesg(1) was used to control where other users could display messages in terminals. While write(1) has been removed, there may be other ways to write to a terminal: one just needs to write to the terminal device. If the default is not secure (and it seems that it isn't, because "mesg n" was removing the write permission for the group), this is potentially bad. 2. wall(1) has not been removed. It seems that it was no longer working, and still isn't. The latest changelog about "wall" says: * No longer install wall, write setgid tty on 27 Mar 2024, but this is not true. It is still installed, and so is its man page, which still references mesg(1) and write(1), though they are no longer installed. -- System Information: Debian Release: trixie/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'proposed-updates-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 6.7.12-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled -- no debconf information -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
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--- Begin Message ---As said before, I see no bug here.
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