tty security (was Re: .plan)

[Chris Torek]

In article <2411 at wyse.wyse.com> bob at wyse.wyse.com (Bob McGowen Wyse Technology
Training) writes:
>Binding a function key may not require the user(owner)'s ID or permissions.
>When a user logs in the device they are on is set to rw--w--w-, ...

Speak for yourself (or rather, your own Unix).  We have been setting it
to `rw--w---- <owner> tty' for some time now.

(I let this go by several times earlier, hoping someone else would point
out that `permission to send messages' is not the same as `permission to
send arbitrary text' in 4.3BSD-tahoe.)
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