It appears that Konsole tries to establish a secure link between your hardware serial port and the pseudo serial port that Konsole uses and fails. So in theory any other users that had access to your Xwindows session could easedrop on your Konsole session. It is only a worry if you have others logged into your PC. If your is a desktop PC, not a server, you have little to worry about. Of course once the data goes out over the serial port it is open for anybody to grab that has the knowledge to do it. It looks like a bug, but I don't know if you should report it to SuSE, KDE, or both. pben On Tuesday 01 July 2003 01:43 pm, John wrote:
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Hi gang,
I was piddlin' around with nothing much to do, so I opened up konqueror and started to just look and read things in different directories and such, and came upon .xsession-errors in my home directory. Most of the stuff makes absolutely no sense to me, but there's a few 'plain english' things in it but don't understand what it means. For instance, I found these lines a few times:
konsole_grantpty not installed root-suid konsole: chownpty failed for device /dev/ptyp0::/dev/ttyp0.
: This means the session can be eavesdroped. : Make sure konsole_grantpty is installed in : /opt/kde3/bin/ and setuid root.
I did a 'man setuid', and from *my* understanding of it, using setuid on things is 'Not Good'®. So what is this device, why did the chown fail, and should I (and how would/do I) make it setuid root? Thanks for any help maqking this 'clearer' to me, and for satiating my idle curiosity, heh.
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