Re: konsole_grantpty should be suid root?

Bill Nottingham <[email protected]> Fri, 14 Nov 2003 11:45:20 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.rhl.beta,gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.testers
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Neal D. Becker ([email protected]) said: 
> >From .xsession-errors:
> 
> konsole: cannot chown /dev/pts/1.
> Reason: Operation not permitted
> konsole_grantpty not installed root-suid
> konsole: chownpty failed for device /dev/pts/1::/dev/pts/1.
>        : This means the session can be eavesdroped.
>        : Make sure konsole_grantpty is installed in
>        : /usr/bin/ and setuid root.

Um, no.

/dev/pts/<foo> are already created with the users' own ownership;
this isn't a necessary step.

Bill


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