From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Linux kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Patch] TIOCCONS security
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 16:16:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040825161630.B8896@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040825161504.A8896@infradead.org>; from hch@infradead.org on Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 04:15:04PM +0100
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-25 15:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-25 15:11 [Patch] TIOCCONS security Olaf Dabrunz
2004-08-25 15:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-08-25 15:16 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2004-08-25 16:18 ` Olaf Dabrunz
2004-08-25 21:03 ` Kees Cook
2004-08-26 21:22 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
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