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

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Sat Aug 26 08:42:54 EDT 2017


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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