konsole_grantpty should be suid root?
Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Fri Nov 14 16:45:20 UTC 2003
Neal D. Becker (nbecker at hns.com) 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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