Package: initscripts Version: 2.86.ds1-14 Severity: wishlist The default TTYMODE as defined in /etc/init.d/mountdevsubfs.sh and /etc/default/devpts is 620, resulting in a default of 'mesg y' for any pseudo terminal. /etc/login.defs from the login package however contains the following
--8<--- # In Debian /usr/bin/bsd-write or similar programs are setgid tty # However, the default and recommended value for TTYPERM is still 0600 # to not allow anyone to write to anyone else console or terminal # Users can still allow other people to write them by issuing # the "mesg y" command. TTYGROUP tty TTYPERM 0600 --8<--- which applies to the non-pseudo terminals and translates into the opposite default of 'mesg n' for these. The default should rather be consistent though, so I suggest to change the TTYMODE default to 0600 too. elmar -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-bdclaim Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages initscripts depends on: ii debianutils 2.16 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii e2fsprogs 1.38+1.39-WIP-2006.04.09-1 ext2 file system utilities and lib ii libc6 2.3.6-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii lsb-base 3.1-5 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip ii mount 2.12r-9 Tools for mounting and manipulatin initscripts recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- .'"`. /"\ | :' : Elmar Hoffmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ASCII Ribbon Campaign \ / `. `' GPG key available via pgp.net against HTML email X `- & vCards / \
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