Package: initscripts,libc6 /etc/default/devpts reads: # Set to 600 to have `mesg n' be the default TTYMODE=620
But this doesn't really work. Even if you mount /dev/pts with mode=600, your pty devices will end up with 620 permissions. This is because well-behaved software calls grantpt(), which changes the device permissions.
Either grantpt() should be fixed not to touch permissions if /dev/pts is a devpts fs (as it did in the past[0]) or initscripts should be fixed not to claim you can have "mesg n" by default.
[0] http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=292e3abebff9f94ca47c1a725a691cb6ed6cff5f -- Jakub Wilk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-glibc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130409151347.ga5...@jwilk.net
