Where does getty get its information?

[Rich Coe]

In article <6411 at awdprime.UUCP> jfh at greenber.austin.ibm.com (John F Haugh II) writes:
>In article <6 at kb2ear.ampr.org> elr at kb2ear.ampr.org (Ed Ravin) writes:
>>A look at the protections on the tty devices shows that they're set to
>>rw-rw--w-, or owner and group read/write, but outsiders write only.  If
>>I chmod the tty device to 666 then Kermit works fine, but after a user
>>signs on and off again, (and getty is restarted), the protection goes
>>back to -w- (write only) for outsiders.
>
>You need to run Kermit set-[UG]ID so it can take control of the port you
>are trying to access.  This is how most of the other commands which
>work with ttys operate. 
>-- 
>John F. Haugh II

kermit doesn't need to be set-uid.  tsm/getty/login has been modified to
allow dialouts on shared/delayed ports for everyone, ie. 666.  Ask the support 
people for ix11286.  Don't take "its in 3002" for an answer.

Regards, Rich Coe
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