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From: mark@loki.une.oz (Mark Garrett )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: user owns login tty
Message-ID: <1053@loki.une.oz>
Date: 4 Dec 90 22:18:39 GMT
References: <1990Dec3.141053.6815@druid.uucp>
Organization: University of NewEngland, Northern Rivers (Lismore)
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From article <1990Dec3.141053.6815@druid.uucp>, by darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain):
> In article <1174@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. In this case the sysadm
>>has a lot of work if the machine goes down before the file /dev/console
>>is existent again. Reloading a tape with a miniUNIX etc...
>>Is there a way to prevent deleting (I assume accidentally) the 
>>/dev/console file?
	On all the version of unix that I've used you require write 
permission to a directory to remove a file from it. Remember its
the file dev on device / that you must update to remove a file !
	If you can remove this file just because you own it then you had
better look at the owner and file protection on dev ! NOW !!!!

	And get these somebody(s) away from your console !!!!!!

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