Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 7 Jun 2012 10:19:51 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: um: TTY fixes (?) |
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On Thu, 07 Jun 2012 01:17:24 +0200 Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> wrote:
> Am 04.06.2012 23:17, schrieb Alan Cox: > > We can half ignore it on console for the simple reason that you > > don't "dial in" to the console. I suspect it may be abusable but > > I've not found a way to do so. > > > > BTW: Can't we add such a mode to tty_port? > E.g. tty_port->non_dialin_console. 8)
That is basically what you are doing when you omit a hangup method. The security consequences on a multi-user box run deeper however so in the end we need to fix the util-linux code.
Alan
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