linux security - Jun 1999 - 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.
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Trevor Johnson