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Tony0945
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Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2020 12:39 am Post subject: Question about Mounting devpts

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In this topic it is mentioned that /dev/pts should be mounted the way I have commented out in /etc/fstab:

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devpts /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0
#devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,notime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000 0 0

I don't remember when I made that change or why.

Could someone please explain the ramifications of not mounting it as I commented out?

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Ant P.
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Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2020 8:37 am Post subject:

The defaults deny all group/other access to terminals and prevent programs like `wall` from working. The commented out line is what /etc/init.d/devfs would use if it wasn't overridden.

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