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From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@sneakerz.org>
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Subject: Re: TIOCSCTTY
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On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 11:19:04AM -0500, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> * Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> [010702 10:51] wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > Could someone please explain why the following code snippet
> > does not work anymore with the "/dev/console" argument?
> > 
> > # ./tiocsctty /dev/console
> > tiocsctty: ioctl(/dev/console, TIOCSCTTY): Operation not permitted
> 
> I think LINT has an option to allow this.  The reason, I think, is
> that you don't want non-root users to be able to grab the console
> output as it may allow them to obscure evil behavior. :)
> 
If you mean UCONSOLE, I doubt this is the case:

1)  I do have it compiled in.
2)  I run this program under root.
3)  I do not have any session that has /dev/console as its
    controlling tty.


Cheers,
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