Amendments to pconsole fast-track [PSARC/2009/275 FastTrack timeout 05/08/2009]

[Norm Jacobs]

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