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This is one of my questions for my exam ..

We are not supposed to use mesg y/n for this but we should effectively avoid mesgs along with the problem of not being able to change groups.

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Constraints seem a bit contrived. Perhaps chmod g= "$(tty)"? – jw013 Oct 15 '12 at 17:39
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Ummm, its allowed on your exam to have Unix & Linux Stack Exchange answer the question for you? – derobert Oct 15 '12 at 20:43
Yes but my exam is over long back :P – user25795 Dec 7 '12 at 4:22

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mesg just changes the permissions on your tty, so mesg y does

chmod 620 `tty`

and mesg n does

chmod 600 `tty`

i.e. enabling and disabling group write access to the tty device.

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