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From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: user owns login tty
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Date: 2 Dec 90 17:32:50 GMT
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In article <1174@aut.autelca.ascom.ch> dhuber@aut.autelca.ascom.ch (Daniel Huber) writes:
>I'm not a unix "specialist" at the moment (probably in future..hi guys)
>:-)
>
>Ok. Here is my question:
>
>Whenever somebody logs in on the system console he owns the device
>/dev/console.
>He can do everything with it. Even delete it. 

Only circumstantially.  Ownership of a file has nothing to do with
deleting it in UNIX.  Check out the permissions on /dev.  Make them mode
0755, owner root.bin, or whatever group makes sense on your system.  Of
course, if they're the superuser, it can still happen.

--tom