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From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,alt.security
Subject: Re: BSD tty security, part 4: What You Can Look Forward To
Message-ID: <1991May01.002114.7000@kithrup.COM>
Date: 1 May 91 00:21:14 GMT
References: <3600: Apr2614: 04:4391@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <1991Apr30.224740.17040@pcserver2.naitc.com> <1991Apr30.231235.7874@mp.cs.niu.edu>
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In article <1991Apr30.231235.7874@mp.cs.niu.edu> rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes:
> And what exactly is there to stop somebody running a daemon which grabs
>access to a pty immediately after it has been assigned, or immediately
>after it has been dynamically created, but before public write access has
>been turned off.

Who says they get created with public access turned *on*?

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