On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 12:34:29PM -0500, 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.
Er, why?
