KDE inherently insecure on OpenBSD?

Michael Pyne michael.pyne at kdemail.net
Sun Dec 18 03:38:38 GMT 2005


On Saturday 17 December 2005 08:42, Dave Feustel wrote:
> That's what one might conclude from the KDE error message
> "chgpttyown of ptt[1-9] failed. As a result, this conversation
> can be eavesdropped." (I'm typing from memory, so the
> text may be not quite right). I am seeing this message a LOT
> now with OpenBSD 3.8 when I exit KDE.

Is kgrantpty installed setuid root?  That's the only thing I can think of 
offhand.

Regards,
 - Michael Pyne
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