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From: budd@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Philip Budne)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: fchmod on your tty
Message-ID: <18570@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: 12 Jan 88 14:17:46 GMT
References: <11190@brl-adm.ARPA>
Reply-To: budd@buita.bu.edu (Phil Budne)
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Organization: Boston Univ. CS Dept.
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[fchmod(0,....) fails on SUN]

I ran into this bug too.  After reading the source I determined that
the "credentials" attached to the tty fd were from the initial open
(by init as uid 0) and so you were denied access.