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

[Tim Haley]

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.
> 
>    -Norm
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So are we back, perhaps regrettably, to the original proposal then?

-tim