#5705 BLOC Update.: sudo gives "can't access tty" errors.

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#5705: sudo gives "can't access tty" errors.
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  Reporter:  cjb      |       Owner:  jg                           
      Type:  defect   |      Status:  new                          
  Priority:  blocker  |   Milestone:  Update.1                     
 Component:  distro   |     Version:                               
Resolution:           |    Keywords:  rainbow-integration, security
  Verified:  0        |    Blocking:                               
 Blockedby:           |  
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Comment(by cjb):

 > Please, provide more information on how to reproduce it.

 Hm.  You came up with what seemed like a good conclusion to me, which was
 that there's no locking of /dev/tty permissions, and X can change them out
 from under the tty.  We didn't test the theory, though.

 I don't have good instructions for reproducing; it's happened to me
 several times on several different reboots, usually when heavily using the
 tty but also switching back and forth to X, possibly restarting X, etc.

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