SuSE was a bit to agressive on permissions on pseudo terminals in 6.3. There is an update that actually fixes this. Go to the SuSE update site: http://www.suse.de/en/support/download/updates/63_update.html In Series A: devs (150 Kb) 03-Dec-99 devs 99.12.3: Pty devices now with rights 666 You can do this directly with YaST. Or you can manually change the permissions of /dev/pty* to 666. for example, as root: cd /dev chmod 666 pty* Andres Pereira wrote:

Hi, when I try to run KConsole,xterm or Netscape as a normal user,not root, I got this message: "Can't open a pseudo teletype". How can I fix this? What's a pseudo teletype? I'm using SuSE 6.3 and KDE 1.1.2

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