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From: eravin@panix.uucp (Ed Ravin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Where does getty get its information?
Message-ID: <1991Apr19.144358.1550@panix.uucp>
Date: 19 Apr 91 14:43:58 GMT
References: <1991Apr11.222123.36169@edm.uucp> <6635@awdprime.UUCP> <1991Apr18.184800.26770@edm.uucp>
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In article <1991Apr18.184800.26770@edm.uucp> geoff@edm.uucp
(Geoff Coleman) writes:
>	why not add an entry into the tty 
>database called owner. Then in the case where you want someone else
>other than root to own a port you could change this attribute.
>	If this were done then tsm/login/getty when it respawns
>on a port could change the ownership to that attribute.  This would seem to
>then allow the uucp programs to not have to be owned by root. 

This is exactly what appears to be documented in the manual :: try "man getty"
or look up the command page with Info Avenger.  It will say that getty sets
the protections of a tty port based on something it finds in ODM.  Alas, this
must be a well-intentioned lie, because there doesn't seem to be anything
in /etc/objrepos that talks about tty port protections.  Or if there is, I
couldn't find it and noone from IBM has stepped forth to reveal its
whereabouts.
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