[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#524139: login: tty perms very, weirdly wrong on console

Sven Joachim svenjoac at gmx.de
Wed Apr 15 06:31:50 UTC 2009


On 2009-04-15 06:26 +0200, Chip Salzenberg wrote:

> Package: login
> Version: 1:4.1.3-1
> Severity: grave
>
> When logging in on the console, the permission on e.g. /dev/tty1 are Weirdly Wrong:
>
>    # ls -l /dev/tty1
>    c--x-wx--T 1 root 4, 1 Apr 14 21:24 /dev/tty1
>
> "That's not right.  It's not even wrong."

Same here.  Looks like a problem with octal vs decimal numbers, because
that weird permissions are 1130 numerical, and 01130 = 600 in decimal.

Sven





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