On 13 Sep 2001, at 22:59, Jaime Herazo B . wrote: > The correct settings for the ttys are, the logged user as owner, "tty" as group, > and permissions 600 (read-write for the user, nothing else). > > I don't really know if this helps you, but it may, so i post it. > I did have group permissions on the ttys showing as write permitted but I haven't found out where it's getting set at.The umask is handled by mandrake Security and should be set to 022 if I'm reading the file right.the group tty appears to have a default permisions setting of 700 .This is a new area for me so it will probably take me some time to chase it down.I tried manually changing the permissions on a console that was already logged in and it had no effect but I'm not sure at what point the console permissions are checked.I do thank you for the info.You might set up a script to login the rest of the consoles after you log in to the first one and start it from .bashrc so it would come up as soon as you logged in and prompt for what terminal you wanted root on and what terminals you wanted a user on.It would seem to be a security risk if you're on an exposed network so you would have to be careful how the passwords were handled. Ray Warren
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