From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: handling the "uucp" group
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2018 07:13:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <23165.15367.658422.703033@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAD4mYiGRk=eT+H9suR-ptKF=S=3hh9M4Qy3BgeMokr5vttA7Q@mail.gmail.com>
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>>>>> On Thu, 8 Feb 2018, R0b0t1 wrote:
> It makes the most sense to me to give a uucp user dialout or tty
> permission, instead of adding myself to the uucp group, a name which
> references programs most people won't have installed and won't know
> about.
The tty group has an entirely different purpose, namely to allow
programs such as write(1) and wall(1) access other users' terminals.
So conflating it with dialout or uucp would be wrong.
Ulrich
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-08 19:03 [gentoo-dev] rfc: handling the "uucp" group William Hubbs
2018-02-08 20:24 ` Mike Gilbert
2018-02-08 20:32 ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-02-08 22:55 ` R0b0t1
2018-02-09 6:13 ` Ulrich Mueller [this message]
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