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Re: What's the difference between the dialout and tty groups?

From Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: What's the difference between the dialout and tty groups?
Date 2018-06-04 17:00 +0200
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>>                                 [...]  Wall, in the wrong hands
>> can be quite a nuisance so that's the sort of power one must be
>> careful about.  In this case, it doesn't really matter since I am
>> the only user.  
> It has since been superseded by Javascript, web page popups and
> targeted ads.

The upside is that those powerful new tools are (pretty much) *only*
available to those with the wrong hands.


        Stefan

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What's the difference between the dialout and tty groups? "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2018-06-03 21:20 +0200
  Re: What's the difference between the dialout and tty groups? Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2018-06-03 23:30 +0200
    Re: What's the difference between the dialout and tty groups? "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2018-06-04 15:10 +0200
      Re: What's the difference between the dialout and tty groups? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2018-06-04 15:10 +0200
        Re: What's the difference between the dialout and tty groups? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2018-06-04 17:00 +0200
          Re: What's the difference between the dialout and tty groups? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2018-06-04 17:00 +0200

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