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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