[K12OSN] How do you handle the 'write' command

Huck dhuckaby at paasda.org
Wed Oct 26 16:06:09 UTC 2005


chmod -x <the binary>

this has proven most effective for our needs here at PAA.

--Huck

John Hansknecht wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> My always quizzical students have discovered the 'write' command and are 
> sending messages. I can think of two methods to stop this, one is to change 
> the permissions on the commands in /usr/bin and the other is to add "mesg n" 
> to the login script.... the problem is I don't know which solution would be 
> better and, to be honest <grin> I don't know to which file I should add "mesg 
> n"? Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> 




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