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base-files package

  1. Bug #13795
  2. Comment #57

Comment 57 for bug 13795

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Debian Bug Importer (debzilla) wrote :

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 04:25:19 +1100
From: Brendan O'Dea <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#299007: base-files: Insecure PATH

On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 11:21:07AM +1100, <email address hidden> wrote:
>[...] I wonder about group tty.

Group tty exists to support write(1), wall(1) and similar. Terminals
are writable by group tty when mesg is "y" (default for non-root users).

--bod