Opened 20 years ago

Closed 20 years ago

Last modified 10 years ago

#473 closed defect (invalid)

Xfree86-4.3.0.1 makes /dev/console world writable

Reported by: archaic@… Owned by: blfs-book@…
Priority: lowest Milestone:
Component: BOOK Version: ~CVS
Severity: normal Keywords:
Cc:

Description

In /etc/X11/xdm/TakeConsole the following lines appear: chmod 622 /dev/console chown root /dev/console

I can find no reason to make /dev/console world writable

Change History (2)

comment:1 by bdubbs@…, 20 years ago

Resolution: invalid
Status: newclosed

BLFS only refers the user to the xdm documentation. It does not modify any xdm scripts.

comment:2 by bdubbs@…, 10 years ago

Milestone: old

Milestone old deleted

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