Why is kgrantpty suid root?

[Waldo Bastian]

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On Mon February 9 2004 13:05, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> On Mon February 9 2004 07:42, Shane Shields wrote:
> > The question is in the subject :) but when making rpm's kgrantpty is not
> > set suid root wheras installing manually it is. Everything seems to work
> > but is it really neccessary?
>
> On some systems you need to be root in order to correctly setup the
> permissions of the pty. That's actually the whole purpose of kgrantpty.

Adding to that.... if konsole still works after you delete kgrantpty then you 
don't need it :-)

Cheers,
Waldo
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