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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Things to fix in KDE-1.1.1pre1 -- konsole.
From:       Peter Silva <peter.silva () videotron ! ca>
Date:       1999-04-22 8:22:21
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Duncan Haldane wrote:
>  
> BTW, is there a fix in place for the lack of terminal privacy of konsole
> on 2.0.x  (2.0.36) kernels?   I have made kvt suid root to chown the tty
> and have utmp support, but in the past this wasnt there for kconsole.
> 

Konsole now includes a setuid root program "konsole_grantpty" to take
care of tty ownership on non UNIX 98 systems.   the utmp stuff will not be 
changed, it isn't a bug, but a design decision.

-- 
Peter

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