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From: ralfi@pemstgt.PEM-Stuttgart.de (Ralf Holighaus)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: user owns login tty
Message-ID: <1990Dec08.073254.7269@pemstgt.PEM-Stuttgart.de>
Date: 8 Dec 90 07:32:54 GMT
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Organization: PEM Tillmann Basien, Stuttgart, Germany
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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. 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

Make a link to one ore more other /dev entries (I suppose that is already
the case; maybe /dev/console is linked to /dev/crt or somethink similar;
check either the inodes or major/minor numbers to see it it is already
present).

For example, execute 'ln /dev/console /dev/systty'. If it then happens that
someone deletes /dev/console, you still have /dev/systty and can relink it
to /dev/console.

Rgds
Ralf
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