Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 23:00:52 -0400 From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu> To: julian@whistle.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tty_snoop: why check uid? Message-ID: <199706050300.XAA20255@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <33959F79.237C228A@whistle.com> (message from Julian Elischer on Wed, 04 Jun 1997 10:01:45 -0700)
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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? >this would allow anyone who can 'talk' to you to 'snoop' >on you as well.. How's that? Happy hacking, joelh -- 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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