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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: user owns login tty
Message-ID: <14643@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 3 Dec 90 14:43:45 GMT
References: <1174@aut.autelca.ascom.ch>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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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.  He can do everything with it. Even delete it.

He shouldn't be able to unlink it if he doesn't have write permission
on /dev.