kpty warnings on OpenBSD

[Adriaan de Groot]

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On Monday 13 December 2004 22:18, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> On Monday 13 December 2004 18:45, Dave Feustel wrote:
> > On Monday 13 December 2004 12:29 pm, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > > On Monday 13 December 2004 18:15, Dave Feustel wrote:
> > > > I am getting  the error messeges below when I run
> > > > startkde. There is no chownpty  in openbsd. How
> > > > do I correct this apparent security problem?
> > > >
> > > > kdecore (KProcess): WARNING: chownpty failed for device
> > > > /dev/ptyp0::/dev/ttyp0 This means the communication can be
> > > > eavesdropped. kdecore (KProcess): WARNING: chownpty failed for device
> > > > /dev/ptyp1::/dev/ttyp1 This means the communication can be
> > > > eavesdropped.

You may want to just take a look at the permissions of those ptys after 
starting konsole -- I remember seeing this warning nearly always on FreeBSD, 
and it didn't ever leave the ptys in a state that was eavesdroppable, as far 
as I could tell. To some extent I'd say this issue is "mine", since I got it 
to work on FBSD aways back.

Oh, also do check your kgrantpty for permissions.

Which OBSD version is this? In the worst case I can dump my SuSE install 
(blech, anyway :) ) and stick OBSD on a crash- (yet very secure) box.

- -- 
Don't worry, 't ain't no shame to be stupid - ol' mouse.
    GPG: FEA2 A3FE Adriaan de Groot
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