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[linux-security] Re: RedHat 6.0, /dev/pts permissions bug when using xterm
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Trevor Johnson)
Thu Jun 10 07:21:06 1999
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 04:43:54 -0400 (EDT)
From: Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net>
To: BUGTRAQ@netspace.org
cc: linux-security@redhat.com, Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>,
security@redhat.com, lilax@linuxatlax.org
In-Reply-To: <19990608112320.A18619@flake.dyndns.org>
Resent-From: linux-security@redhat.com
Resent-Reply-To: linux-security@redhat.com
Brian's fix works for me. I did up an SRPM (unsigned) with it in:
http://linuxatlax.org/trevor/srpms/rxvt-2.6.PRE2-6.src.rpm
Brian D. Winters <brianw@ALUMNI.CALTECH.EDU> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 10:24:29AM -0700, Zack wrote:
> > in /etc/fstab:
> >
> > none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
>
> This is not sufficient when using rxvt and apparently several other
> xterm-a-likes. By default rxvt overides the gid with the user's gid
> and changes the permissions to 622, even if the permissions specified
> in fstab are more restrictive than 622. The solution with rxvt is to
> pass --enable-ttygid to the configure script.
__
Trevor Johnson
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