[Kde-nonlinux] kpty warnings on OpenBSD

[Waldo Bastian]

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.
> >
> > Post it to kde-core-devel, preferably with pointers to some docu on how
> > pty's work in openbsd.

[snip]

> Thanks Waldo.
>
> Here is a  pointer to the openbsd man page on pty.
> I've read it but I still don't understand it.
>
> http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pty&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpat
>h=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html

After the above warnings, what does "ls -al /dev/ttyp*" say about it?

Cheers,
Waldo
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