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- From: jaffer@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Aubrey Jaffer)
- Subject: Permissions on Psuedottys
- Message-ID: <JAFFER.93Jan25130204@camelot.ai.mit.edu>
- Sender: news@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu
- Organization: M.I.T. Artificial Intelligence Lab.
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:02:04 GMT
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- rootimage-0.98 sets up the psuedottys without read access for random
- users. This makes emacs subshells have strange behavior (like not
- being isatty()) and getting warnings about permissions for every
- command. chmod 777 /dev/* fixes this.
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