Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 15:52:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com> To: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tty_snoop: why check uid? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970604154944.8133A-100000@misery.sdf.com> In-Reply-To: <199706040626.CAA13887@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
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On Wed, 4 Jun 1997, Joel Ray Holveck wrote: > Why does the snp device check to make sure that the user invoking it > is root, instead of letting the admin set the permissions on the > device to whatever he feels appropriate? > > Happy hacking, > joelh > > PS: Yes, I have a context diff to allow a kernel option to disable > this check availible on request. > > -- > http://www.wp.com/piquan --- Joel Ray Holveck --- joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu > All my opinions are my own, not the Free Software Foundation's. > > Second law of programming: > Anything that can go wrong wi > sendmail: segmentation violation -- core dumped > > > Because if the tty snoop is not root, he/she soon will be. It is better not to fool yourself, and give the root password to all snoop users. Tomhelp
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