At 18:29 -0700 1998-06-08, Richard Braakman wrote:
>Package: login
>Maintainer: Guy Maor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 22191 login: does not chown /dev/vcs* anymore
As I quoted in a reply to 22191:
Here's what the author says in libmisc/chowntty.c:
#ifdef __linux__
/*
* Please don't add code to chown /dev/vcs* to the user logging in -
* it's a potential security hole. I wouldn't like the previous user
* to hold the file descriptor open and watch my screen. We don't
* have the *BSD revoke() system call yet, and vhangup() only works
* for tty devices (which vcs* is not). --marekm
*/
#endif
}
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