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-s
* mwgamera [241023 01:32]:
> On Tue, 22 Oct 2024 at 23:36, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:
> > https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2024/msg00058.html
> > is the context for the change.
>
> I understand that was what the fix adding missing input sanitization
> was about. But there was a s
Control: tags -1 wontfix
* mwgam...@gmail.com [241022 22:42]:
> Attempting to use write(1) in recent versions of bsdextrautils
> invariably (unless run by root) results in:
>
> write: effective gid does not match group of /dev/pts/NN
[..]
> The problem is also present in stable. To be honest
Package: bsdextrautils
Version: 2.40.2-9
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/write
Attempting to use write(1) in recent versions of bsdextrautils
invariably (unless run by root) results in:
write: effective gid does not match group of /dev/pts/NN
Of course, now that the pre-1995 behaviour was re
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