Summary: | [libteken] either xterm -C or ioctl TIOCCONS is broken | ||
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Product: | Base System | Reporter: | Dan Strick <mla_strick> |
Component: | kern | Assignee: | freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs> |
Status: | Open --- | ||
Severity: | Affects Only Me | CC: | mla |
Priority: | Normal | ||
Version: | 8.0-RELEASE | ||
Hardware: | Any | ||
OS: | Any |
Description
Dan Strick
2009-12-23 20:30:01 UTC
Responsible Changed From-To: freebsd-bugs->ed ed, can you advise please? I'm guessing at the categorization. Hello Dan, The reason why I changed it to the way it is right now, is because it's more in line with the futuristic security model we'll hopefully gain in the future. Letting the permission to use TIOCCONS depend on the file attributes of a random character device surely isnt't the way to go. Robert Watson and I discussed this and I am considering adding a sysctl to the kernel to allow TIOCCONS to be used without any superuser privileges. Would that suit your needs? Merry Christmas, -- Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> WWW: http://80386.nl/ > Letting the permission to use TIOCCONS depend on the file > attributes of a random character device surely isnt't the way to go. > > Robert Watson and I discussed this and I am considering adding a sysctl > to the kernel to allow TIOCCONS to be used without any superuser > privileges. Would that suit your needs? That should work for me since I am the only person who can log onto my workstation (assuming I can set the sysctl in /boot/loader.conf). A public workstation might need finer control over the privilege. Dan Strick * Dan Strick <mla_strick@att.net> wrote: > That should work for me since I am the only person who can log onto my > workstation (assuming I can set the sysctl in /boot/loader.conf). > A public workstation might need finer control over the privilege. Sure, but that's hopefully something the TrustedBSD folks could provide in the future. I'll write a patch one of these days. Happy new year, -- Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> WWW: http://80386.nl/ For bugs matching the following criteria: Status: In Progress Changed: (is less than) 2014-06-01 Reset to default assignee and clear in-progress tags. Mail being skipped |