On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, V.Suresh wrote:

>         " chmod 666 /dev/ttyS15".
> And the user was able to use it. But the permissions are changed often 

a 666 permission will be considered dangerous by any security aware
program using the port, say ppp. Its most likely they are changing it to
more secure settings. You can set the immutable flag on it, but i suggest
putting the authorised users in a wheel group, rather than the above.

-- sreangsu


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