On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 10:16:01AM +0100, Jan Sievers wrote: > The mentioned difference still exists.
In the current version (2.88dsf-34), /etc/default/default/devpts defaults to 0620. /etc/login.defs is setting TTYPERM 0600. The devpts setting appears to be taking precedence; not sure why since this is just a mount option for devpts, while the TTYPERM should take effect at login time. Might be worth asking the login maintainer or seeing why it's not being used. > While most people probably don't care about bsd-write and Co., an > administrator of a multiuser machine should. > > Since it has become quite uncommon to use these programs, a default of > > TTYMODE=0600 > > would result in one thing less to think about. Is this an issue in practice? You do need to additionally install a setgid tty tool e.g. write in bsdmainutils as well. It's too late to change this for wheezy, but could be revisited for jessie. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools `- GPG Public Key F33D 281D 470A B443 6756 147C 07B3 C8BC 4083 E800 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
