konsole_grantpty should be suid root?

Felipe Alfaro Solana felipe_alfaro at linuxmail.org
Fri Nov 14 14:11:36 UTC 2003


On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 14:55, Neal D. Becker wrote:
> >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.

I noticed this in the past, but set-suid-ing konsole_grantpty didn't
stop the error message from appearing on .xsession-errors for me.





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