On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 06:59:13AM -0500, Dave Feustel wrote: > The permissions of pty's used by kde konsole sessions on OpenBSD never > are properly set for the user to which they are allocated. The permissions of > the > pty used by a kde konsole session remain owned by root and globally rw. > This is because the call from konsole to kgrantpty to allocate the pty and to > set the pty ownership and permissions does not seem to connect with OpenBSD's > PTMGET command (man 4 pty) which does these tasks in OpenBSD. > > You can see this after starting a few kde konsole sessions by using 'ls -l' > to inspect /dev/ptys[0-9]. The output of the ls command will show the time > that the pty was allocated to the kde konsole session, the global rw > permissions, > and root ownership. > > Dave Feustel.
konsole code is a big mess. This is not the actual issue, the actual issue is that a big part of konsole needs to be specialized on OpenBSD to use openpty, which will solve all of this.
