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@@ -2,6 +2,18 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- * Noteworthy changes in release ?.? (????-??-??) [?] +** New features + + who: the "+/-" --mesg (-T) indicator of whether a user/tty is accepting + messages could be incorrectly listed as "+", when in fact, the user was + not accepting messages (mesg no). Before, who would examine only the + permission bits, and not consider the group of the TTY device file. + Thus, if a login tty's group would change somehow e.g., to "root", + that would make it unwritable (via write(1)) by normal users, in spite + of whatever the permission bits might imply. Now, when configured + using the --with-tty-group[=NAME] option, who also compares the group + of the TTY device with NAME (or "tty" if no group name is specified). + * Noteworthy changes in release 8.4 (2010-01-13) [stable] |