It did used to be write, in the very early days, but since write 1 and mesg 1 meant users could write to one another's terminals it also meant they could alter their settings. I also tried this on both servers from a putty window of a different server and got the same results - success on server1, and the error on server2. This should be kept to the bare minimum every user needs. HPE GreenLake. Find all posts by Just Ice.
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