[ale] Give application write access to /dev/console?

[Kyle Brieden]

I thought the company sounded familiar... they produce Control-M, which 
is what my company uses.  It's god awful... gets all over everything and 
is just a colossal pain in my butt.

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Very respectfully,
Kyle Brieden

On 26-08-2017 16:58, Jim Kinney wrote:
> Ah.
> 
> Remedy. Ugh.
> 
> The tool pretty much takes over a system which is why the installation
> needs .login write access. It will need to make environment setting
> changes.
> 
> I use request tracker.
> 
> On August 26, 2017 10:23:32 AM EDT, Leam Hall <leamhall at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Section "Preparing to install as a nonroot user"
>> 
>> 
> https://docs.bmc.com/docs/brid91/preparing-a-unix-environment-610402414.html#PreparingaUNIXenvironment-PreparingtoinstallonRedHatLinux
>> 
>> On 08/26/2017 09:40 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>>> Run!
>>> 
>>> Actually, please inform us of the name of this fine establishment
>>> that
>>> crafts such outstanding software so that we can all enjoy its
>>> mindful
>>> design features.
>>> 
>>> On August 26, 2017 9:03:10 AM EDT, Leam Hall <leamhall at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> After going over their initial list of requirements I'm pretty
>>> sure they
>>> shouldn't be trying to sell software. Things like write access to
>>> /etc/login.
>>> 
>>> On 08/26/2017 08:42 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>>> 
>>> Shouldn't that be handled by other processes? App writes to
>>> STDOUT and
>>> that is passed to appropriate location including console.
>>> 
>>> On August 26, 2017 4:59:44 AM EDT, leam hall
>>> <leamhall at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> For some reason this strikes me as not a great idea, but no solid
>>> reason comes to mind. The application installer says it needs
>>> write
>>> access to /dev/console.
>>> 
>>> Is there an actual security risk?
>>> 
>>> Leam
>>> 
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