[ale] Give application write access to /dev/console?

Leam Hall leamhall at gmail.com
Sat Aug 26 09:03:10 EDT 2017


After going over their initial list of requirements I'm pretty sure they 
shouldn't be trying to sell software. Things like write access to 
/etc/login.


On 08/26/2017 08:42 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> Shouldn't that be handled by other processes? App writes to STDOUT and 
> that is passed to appropriate location including console.
> 
> On August 26, 2017 4:59:44 AM EDT, leam hall <leamhall at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>     For some reason this strikes me as not a great idea, but no solid
>     reason comes to mind. The application installer says it needs write
>     access to /dev/console.
> 
>     Is there an actual security risk?
> 
>     Leam


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