mrg@eterna.com.au (matthew green) writes:

>the problem here is that there is no clean way to find out
>the owner of /dev/console from within the kernel.  ideally
>TIOCCONS should be limited to root and this user.

>(perhaps it should also be based on the permissions of
>/dev/console -- world writable, and anyone can have it).

I.e. those who can open the device, if we'd set the owner/permissions through
ttyaction() or in an /etc/fbtab-ish way.

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