linux-kernel - Re: um: TTY fixes (?)

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Date:	Thu, 07 Jun 2012 11:06:12 +0200
From:	Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>
CC:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, jslaby@...e.cz,
	user-mode-linux-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	viro@...iv.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: um: TTY fixes (?)

Am 07.06.2012 11:19, schrieb Alan Cox:
> On Thu, 07 Jun 2012 01:17:24 +0200
> Richard Weinberger <richard@....at> wrote:
> 
>> Am 04.06.2012 23:17, schrieb Alan Cox:
>>> We can half ignore it on console for the simple reason that you
>>> don't "dial in" to the console. I suspect it may be abusable but
>>> I've not found a way to do so.
>>>
>>
>> BTW: Can't we add such a mode to tty_port?
>> E.g. tty_port->non_dialin_console. 8)
> 
> That is basically what you are doing when you omit a hangup method. The
> security consequences on a multi-user box run deeper however so in the
> end we need to fix the util-linux code.

Okay, than I have to find out why getty does not start if I omit ->hangup.

Thanks,
//richard



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