#5705 BLOC 8.2.0 (: 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:  cscott                       
       Type:  defect     |      Status:  new                          
   Priority:  blocker    |   Milestone:  8.2.0 (was Update.2)         
  Component:  distro     |     Version:                               
 Resolution:             |    Keywords:  rainbow-integration, security
Next_action:  never set  |    Verified:  0                            
  Blockedby:             |    Blocking:                               
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Comment(by mstone):

 Regarding the question of shippability: I'm certainly interested in the
 patch though I'd like to see some more testing results first.

 Regarding the question of correctness: Why should we be hardcoding the tty
 number at all? Shouldn't the choice of tty be passed as a commandline
 argument/env var or detected at run time?

 (In my mind, a correct implementation would respond gracefully to the
 addition of new mingetty's ttys both before and after the X tty.)

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