The ability to remotely SSH into a machine running an Ubuntu LiveCD can come in handy in many situations. The LiveCD supports a large variety of hardware and can be used to troubleshoot system problems on a machine where you have limited or no access. A user with limited skills can easily setup remote access [...]

You can identify the path the the controlling terminal device path for your current process in C with the ttyname() system call. This controlling terminal can be a virtual console (/dev/ttyn) or a pseudo-terminal (/dev/pts/n).
The ttyname system call takes the following format.
char *ttyname(int fd);
The stdin, stdout, stderr file descriptors unless redirected are by default [...]