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How do I enable write?
Name: MicrosoftMAN Date: April 24, 2004 at 14:13:20 Pacific OS: Debian 3.0 CPU/Ram: 120MHZ,96MB
Comment:
I wish to be able to use write root tty1 from SSH or anywhere else but it says its not enabled. How can I go upon enabling/disabling this?
Name: MicrosoftMAN Date: April 24, 2004 at 18:05:35 Pacific
Reply:
write: root has messages disabled on tty1
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Response Number 2
Name: Wolfbone Date: April 24, 2004 at 22:48:16 Pacific
Reply:
man mesg
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Response Number 3
Name: sillygates Date: April 24, 2004 at 22:56:16 Pacific
Reply:
Go into your favorite run level editor and change runlevel 3 (if you boot into a shell) or runlevel 5 (if you boot into Xwindows/FreeX86) to run writed at boot.
If your actually having a problem with file permissions use chmod to modify the permissions on write (i reccomend "733" (I think that would work))
and btw you CAN use write from tty1
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Response Number 4
Name: Wolfbone Date: April 25, 2004 at 10:46:42 Pacific
Reply:
Perhaps Mr. Lange would like the keys to your car too.
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Response Number 5
Name: sillygates Date: April 27, 2004 at 20:02:57 Pacific
Reply:
What is that suppoed to mean? I doubt anybody would hack into his system just to read and execute the write command, and what would be the worst outcome? oh, no somone is messaging me! It's a lot easier to set write up that way, which was the default when I installed redhat, then to explain how to ensure the proper user group.
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Response Number 6
Name: Wolfbone Date: April 27, 2004 at 23:54:08 Pacific
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"I doubt anybody would hack into his system just to read and execute the write command"
Yes - how dull that would be.... perhaps we should overwrite the now world-writeable (733) write binary with something more interesting.
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