Trevor Johnson
1999-Jun-10 08:43 UTC
Re: RedHat 6.0, /dev/pts permissions bug when using xterm
Brian's fix works for me. I did up an SRPM (unsigned) with it in: http://linuxatlax.org/trevor/srpms/rxvt-2.6.PRE2-6.src.rpm Brian D. Winters <brianw@ALUMNI.CALTECH.EDU> wrote:> On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 10:24:29AM -0700, Zack wrote: > > in /etc/fstab: > > > > none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 > > This is not sufficient when using rxvt and apparently several other > xterm-a-likes. By default rxvt overides the gid with the user's gid > and changes the permissions to 622, even if the permissions specified > in fstab are more restrictive than 622. The solution with rxvt is to > pass --enable-ttygid to the configure script.__ Trevor Johnson