Aterm has an issue with creating a terminal. A quick ?ls ?al? on a aterm with ?mesg y? shows: crw--w--w- 1 alsdk users 5, 3 Jul 13 17:27 /dev/ttyp3 with ?mesg n?: crw-----w- 1 alsdk users 5, 3 Jul 13 17:28 /dev/ttyp3 1) World (nobody) is able to ?echo? or ?cat? towards the terminal echo ?hello? >> /dev/ttyp3 cat mkdir >> /dev/ttyp3 2) The group seems to be incorrect, a normal terminal has default group tty A xterm with ?mesg y? shows : crw--w---- 1 ttielu tty 5, 5 Jul 13 17:27 ttyp5 and with ?mesg n? : crw------- 1 ttielu tty 5, 5 Jul 13 17:27 ttyp5 Advice: use xterm Bug found by TTIelu, reverse engineered by alsdk and TTIelu
