Hi,

sorry for the late reply.

As you've probably already seen, in unstable mesg and write are
already gone. wall still works, provided the caller is either root
or wants to write to its own terminals.

For bookworm, a stable update is in the works that undoes the mesg
change. write(1) stays non-setgid, and sysadmins can make it setgid
tty again, if they so desire. However, security bugs resulting from
such a configuration will probably not see a lot of attention.

Thanks for bringing this to my attention!

Chris

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