Re: Why is kgrantpty suid root?

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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.

Cheers,
Waldo
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