topic Re: /dev/console permissions in Operating System - HP-UX

/dev/console permissions

Terrence — Mon, 02 Jun 2003 18:50:45 GMT

My security cookbook recommends that /dev/console should not be world writeable. But even though I've changed it several times, (chmod o-w /dev/console) somehow the permission keeps getting flipped back to 622 from 620. Anyone know what would cause that file to add world writability? It's group ownership is tty so perhaps that's to blame?

Re: /dev/console permissions

Paul Sperry — Mon, 02 Jun 2003 18:52:18 GMT

I would set it to:

crw--w--w- 1 root sys 0 0x000000 Feb 20 16:55 console

Re: /dev/console permissions

Paul Sperry — Mon, 02 Jun 2003 18:54:01 GMT

as root
chgrp sys /dev/console
chmod ugo+w /dev/console