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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE inherently insecure on OpenBSD?
From:       Dave Feustel <dfeustel () mindspring ! com>
Date:       2005-12-18 10:50:40
Message-ID: 200512180550.41532.dfeustel () mindspring ! com
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On Saturday 17 December 2005 22:38, Michael Pyne wrote:
> 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

It looks like kgrantpty is not present in the OpenBSD port of KDE.
(Not found by find or which). 

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