Norm Jacobs wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-arc mailing list > opensolaris-arc at opensolaris.org
So are we back, perhaps regrettably, to the original proposal then? -tim
