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

[Chip Salzenberg]

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."
Priority "grave" becuase of the group-write bit.

And no, I haven't been playing with login.defs:

   # grep '^TTY' /etc/login.defs
   TYGROUP        tty
   TTYPERM        0600


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.28-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages login depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.9-7      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libpam-modules                1.0.1-9    Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam-runtime                1.0.1-9    Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii  libpam0g                      1.0.1-9    Pluggable Authentication Modules l

login recommends no packages.

login suggests no packages.

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