Bug 108250

Summary:	static /dev/tty and /dev/ptmx should have permissions 0666
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Ulrich Müller <ulm>
Component:	[OLD] baselayout	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	Proposed patch for MAKEDEV

Description Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2005-10-06 01:03:26 UTC

/sbin/MAKEDEV generates /dev/tty with permissions 0660.
However, preventing a process from accessing its controlling terminal makes no
sense, so /dev/tty should be world accessible.

In addition, udev has owner root:tty and permissions 0666 for /dev/tty.
Static /dev should be consistent with udev.

Similar arguments apply to /dev/ptmx.

Comment 1 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2005-10-06 01:04:33 UTC

Created attachment 69971 [details, diff]
Proposed patch for MAKEDEV

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2005-10-06 19:00:43 UTC

this has been fixed in trunk already, just needed to merge it back to the
branches which ive done in svn now

crw-rw-rw-  1 root tty 5, 2 Oct  6 21:56 ptmx
crw-rw-rw-  1 root tty 5, 0 Oct  6 21:56 tty
crw-------  1 root tty 4, 0 Oct  6 21:56 tty0
crw-------  1 root tty 4, 1 Oct  6 21:56 tty1
crw-------  1 root tty 4, 2 Oct  6 21:56 tty2
crw-------  1 root tty 4, 3 Oct  6 21:56 tty3
crw-------  1 root tty 4, 4 Oct  6 21:56 tty4
crw-------  1 root tty 4, 5 Oct  6 21:56 tty5
crw-------  1 root tty 4, 6 Oct  6 21:56 tty6
crw-------  1 root tty 4, 7 Oct  6 21:56 tty7
crw-------  1 root tty 4, 8 Oct  6 21:56 tty8
crw-------  1 root tty 4, 9 Oct  6 21:56 tty9