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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next prev parent 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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