James Carlson wrote: > Norm Jacobs writes: > >> TIOCSTI appears to require elevated privilege. streamio.c appears to >> do the auth checking in the kernel using secpolicy_sti(), which equates >> > > If you issue it on the controlling tty for this process and you have > at least read access, then you won't need extra privileges. But, yes, > if you want to do it on someone else's tty, then you'll need all > privileges, as it's an escalation threat. > It appears to want to use other's ttys.
-Norm
