Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 02:24:02 -0400 From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: tty_snoop: why check uid? Message-ID: <199706040626.CAA13887@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
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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
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