Re: [Patch] TIOCCONS security

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 04:15:04PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Still, I believe that administrators and operators would not like any
> > user to be able to hijack messages that were written to the console.
> > 
> > The only user of TIOCCONS that I am aware of is bootlogd/blogd, which
> > runs as root. Please comment if there are other users.
> 
> Oh, common.  Do your basic research - this has been rejected a few times
> and there have been better proposals.  Just use goggle a little bit.

Umm, I'm smoking crack.  Sorry, for some reason I took this for another
TIOCGDEV submission without reading.

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