Aterm has an issue with creating a terminal.



A quick ‘ls –al’ on a aterm with ‘mesg y’ shows:

crw--w--w-  1 alsdk  users    5,   3 Jul 13 17:27 /dev/ttyp3

with ‘mesg n’:

crw-----w-  1 alsdk  users    5,   3 Jul 13 17:28 /dev/ttyp3



1) World (nobody) is able to ‘echo’ or ‘cat’ towards the terminal

echo “hello” >> /dev/ttyp3

cat mkdir >> /dev/ttyp3 

2) The group seems to be incorrect, a normal terminal has default group tty



A xterm with ‘mesg y’ shows :

crw--w----   1 ttielu  tty         5,   5 Jul 13 17:27 ttyp5

and with ‘mesg n’ :

crw-------   1 ttielu  tty         5,   5 Jul 13 17:27 ttyp5



Advice: use xterm



Bug found by TTIelu, reverse engineered by alsdk and TTIelu