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From: chris@vision.UUCP (Chris Davies)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: user owns login tty
Message-ID: <1339@vision.UUCP>
Date: 3 Dec 90 16:39:27 GMT
References: <1174@aut.autelca.ascom.ch>
Reply-To: chris@vision.UUCP (Chris Davies)
Organization: VisionWare Ltd., Leeds, UK
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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. [...]

No, they shouldn't be able to delete it.

You should check the permissions of the directory /dev (SysV command is
'ls -ld /dev');  they should be something like rwxr-xr-x with owner bin, root,
or sys.

In general if a user doesn't have write access to a directory then they cannot
delete any files from it.

Chris
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