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Date:      Fri, 4 Oct 2002 13:48:20 +0200
From:      Norbert Augenstein <norbert@augenstein.net>
To:        "John R. Shannon" <john@johnrshannon.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: konsole_grantpty
Message-ID:  <20021004114820.GA305@seth.augenstein.net>
In-Reply-To: <200209261538.06178.john@johnrshannon.com>
References:  <200209261538.06178.john@johnrshannon.com>

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On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 03:37:57PM -0600, John R. Shannon wrote:
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> Did you ever resolve this problem:
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> i get the following message on starting konsole in kde 302, 
> 
> konsole: chownpty failed for device /dev/ptyp1::/dev/ttyp1.
>        : This means the session can be eavesdroped.
>        : Make sure konsole_grantpty is installed in
>        : /usr/local/bin/ and setuid root.
> 
> konsole_grantpty is installed and setuid root on my system
> konsole is running as "user", shouldn't it run as root like xterm 
> should i ignore it??
> 
> - -- 
> 
> John R. Shannon
> john@johnrshannon.com
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No , i never got an answer. i installed 4.7.rc2/kde303 yesterday on my
laptop and the message is still the same.
i will CC to the -stable list, maybe someone on this list can explain
what it means.

auge

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