Re: A requirement for the current user to own ttys

On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 10:08 PM, Egmont Koblinger wrote: > So, again, if I'm not mistaken, cons.saver basically does the following: > Based on the ownership, permissions etc. of _/dev/ttyX_, it either grants > or denies access to _/dev/vcsaX_. You cannot examine the ttyX and

Re: A requirement for the current user to own ttys

Hi, Why do you think on my system I cannot access vcs* devices. As far as I > remember I never said that. > You did include the output of "ls -l /dev/vcs*" on your system, showing that they're owned by vcsa and chmod 600. So, they are not directly accessible to your 'echo' or 'ghost' users. They

Re: A requirement for the current user to own ttys

Hi, > What do you mean by "the resource" in the lines above? There are at least two pieces of resource in the game, the tty and the vcsa (maybe more, I don't know). We'd need a much more precise description. >> if a user doesn't own the tty device but is a member of a group owning the tty should