Turning on write-permission in Debian?

 
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Old 04-03-2006
Turning on write-permission in Debian?

How can i do that? Is it safe? Why is it disabled by default?

Thanks
/Richard

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ie: the program to write to other users on my computer.
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Old 04-03-2006
What do you mean by "write"? Send message to another user's terminal with the "write" command, or modify the files of another owner?
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Old 04-04-2006
Send message to another user...
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Old 04-04-2006
The destination user must have used the command

mesg y

to enable others to write to his/her terminal. There is no way to override this, as this is a privacy feature.
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