Remeber when I ranted about RH 6.0...

[dmartin at LanCity.COM (Derek Martin)]

On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Christoph Doerbeck A242369 wrote:

> 
> If someone can answer this:  xterm on SUN is not setuid, what changes
> the permissions on /devices/pseudo/* when xterm opens a new pseudo device?
> 
> - Christoph

This one I'm not so sure of, but I think it's the tty driver in the
kernel.  With Unix98 pty's, when one wants to assign a pseudo tty, one
would open /dev/ptmx and I believe the tty driver sets up a pty with the
appropriate ownership and permissions.

Can anyone else confirm or deny this?  :)


Derek D. Martin           |  UNIX System Administrator
d_martin at worldnet.att.net |  dmartin at lancity.com

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