From: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2025 09:03:24 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: NEWS: mention mesg y/n
X-Git-Tag: v258-rc1~1619
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f54390de87919e70419618e3cd0b555c2f938808;p=thirdparty%2Fsystemd.git

NEWS: mention mesg y/n
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 7563d63d9c9..dde530e3964 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -7,7 +7,9 @@ CHANGES WITH 258 in spe:
         * The default access mode of tty/pts device nodes has been changed to
           0600, which was 0620 in the older releases, due to general security
           concerns about terminals being written to by other users. To restore
-          the old default access mode, use '-Dtty-mode=0620' meson build option.
+          the old default access mode, use '-Dtty-mode=0620' meson build
+          option. (This effectively means "mesg n" is now the default, rather
+          than "mesg y", see mesg(1) man page for help.)
 
         * systemd-run's --expand-environment= switch, which was disabled
           by default when combined with --scope, has been changed to to be