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Old 07-17-2002
How can I deny messaging which use "wall" to send message out?
Dear all,


How can I deny messaging which use "wall" command to send message out?


regards
Wilson
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Old 07-17-2002
Sorry but you can't do that. wall is used by root to send messages to everyone. And root will always be able to write to your terminal.
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Old 07-17-2002
Power
I disagree with Perderabo you can disable the wall daemon in
/etc/inetd.conf file

comment out wall daemon i.e place an # in front of walld/1 in /etc/inetd.conf

then issue a kill -HUP (inetd proccess id)
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Old 07-17-2002
wall != rwall
Disabling the rwalld daemon will stop remote hosts from sending any messages at all to the local host. However the wall command does not use the rwalld daemon.
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Old 07-17-2002
You are right Perderabo disabling walld in
/etc/inetd.conf will only disable rwall
remote wall

Thanks for putting me right Perderabo
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Old 07-17-2002
You could move the executable or change the permissions so only a certain group or user could run it.
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Old 07-17-2002
Hmmm...I may have been too hasty here. I never before noticed that ordinary users can run /usr/sbin/wall. But it is using the same permission scheme as the "write" command. You learn something new every day, I guess.

It is possible for a user to protect his terminal from wall/write messages from ordinary users. The way to do this is with the command "mesg n". And "mesg y" will accept messages again.

But if the messages are coming from root, there is no hope. Root is supposed to be able to do pretty much everything. As a sysadmin, I'm a bit aghast at the prospect of ordinary users running wall. Is this accepted practice in some shops?
 
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