For mgetty users with non-trusted shell logins

Gert Doering (gert@greenie.muc.de)
Wed, 27 Jan 1999 22:41:48 +0100


hi,

On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 07:06:52PM +0100, Marc SCHAEFER wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Jan 1999 l41484@alfa.ist.utl.pt wrote:
> > What are the priveleges for the devices when NO connection is established?
> 
> Or, better asked, WHO resets the permissions/owner on those fake
> devices ? :)

They are "normal" tty devices, from user land there is no difference
to a local modem.  So mgetty and login change permissions to and from
"user owned".

gert
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