I believe that the permissions are changed to allow a logged in user to access that terminal. The permissions are handled and reset by the appropriate log in service.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -lh /dev/pts/3 crw------- 1 plhofmei tty 136, 3 Apr 19 16:47 /dev/pts/3 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ Other than that...I have always noted the /dev/tty and /dev/pts devices to always be secured and owned by root. I have been using Debian since Potato-- (been so long, I forgot what the code name was...) On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 at 04:15:41PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Matt Zimmerman said: > > On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 09:31:27PM +0200, Jan Minar wrote: > > > % ssh kh > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: > > > Linux kontryhel 2.4.26-jan #3 SMP Mon Apr 19 05:00:00 CEST 2004 i686 unknown > > > % echo 'Morning, Mister root, welcome to a jail 8-)' > /dev/tty63 > > > % while :; do echo -e '\033[12;63]' > /dev/tty63; done > > > > The relevant permissions are more restrictive with udev: > > > > crw------- 1 root root 4, 63 2004-03-17 16:23 /dev/tty63 > > And on a newly installed sid box: > crw------- 1 root tty 4, 63 2004-03-23 16:49 /dev/tty63 > > No udev here. Previous installs may have had bad permissions, but > current ones do not. Perhaps, Jan, if you're interested, file a bug > against makedev or one fo the other associated packages, asking them to > check the permissions on these devices on upgrade, and correct if > necessary. Seems trivial enough to do. A patch would probably not > hurt. > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > | ,''`. Stephen Gran | > | : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | > | `- http://www.debian.org | > ----------------------------------------------------------------- -- Phillip Hofmeister PGP/GPG Key: http://www.zionlth.org/~plhofmei/ wget -O - http://www.zionlth.org/~plhofmei/key.asc | gpg --import