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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: xterm: no available ptys
Date: 6 Nov 2000 14:04:19 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8u79t3$o7a$1@cesium.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20001106203738.17935.qmail@web110.yahoomail.com> <20001106155755.A4096@munchkin.spectacle-pond.org>

Followup to:  <20001106155755.A4096@munchkin.spectacle-pond.org>
By author:    Michael Meissner <meissner@spectacle-pond.org>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> Did you mount /dev/pts, which is usually done with a line in /etc/fstab:
> 
> none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=0622 0 0
> 

That should be gid=5,mode=0620 unless you *REALLY*, *REALLY* know what
you're doing!!!!  Arguably, that should actually be mode=0600, with
user tty's then being required to chmod to 0620 if they want "mesg y"
by default.

(gid 5 being the gid for group "tty".)

	-hpa
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  reply	other threads:[~2000-11-06 22:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-11-06 20:37 xterm: no available ptys Paul Powell
2000-11-06 20:53 ` Ben Ford
2000-11-06 20:57 ` Michael Meissner
2000-11-06 22:04   ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2000-11-07  0:57 ` Igmar Palsenberg
2000-11-07  0:28   ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-11-08  0:32     ` Igmar Palsenberg
2000-11-08  2:24       ` H. Peter Anvin

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