(string) (string) The terminal permissions: the login tty will be owned by the group, and the permissions will be set to . By default, the ownership of the terminal is set to the user's primary group and the permissions are set to 0600. can be either the name of a group or a numeric group identifier. If you have a write program which is "setgid" to a special group which owns the terminals, define TTYGROUP to the group number and TTYPERM to 0620. Otherwise leave TTYGROUP commented out and assign TTYPERM to either 622 or 600.