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From: dhuber@aut.autelca.ascom.ch (Daniel Huber)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.questions
Subject: user owns login tty
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Date: 2 Dec 90 13:21:12 GMT
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Organization: Ascom Autelca AG, CH-3073 Guemligen Switzerland
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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. 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?

Daniel

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