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From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: user owns login tty
Message-ID: <1990Dec03.012527.8934@kithrup.COM>
Date: 3 Dec 90 01:25:27 GMT
References: <1174@aut.autelca.ascom.ch>
Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd.
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In article <1174@aut.autelca.ascom.ch> dhuber@aut.autelca.ascom.ch (Daniel Huber) writes:
>Whenever somebody logs in on the system console he owns the device
>/dev/console.
>Even delete it.

The only way a user can delete (unlink) a file is if (s)he has write access
to the directory in which the file resides.  Just because /dev/console is
owned by a user, this alone does not mean said user can delete the file.

Check the permissions on /dev.

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