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



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On August 26, 2017 9:03:10 AM EDT, Leam Hall <leamhall at gmail.com> wrote:
>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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