On Mon, 2 Jan 2012 22:59:01 +0000, Mick wrote:

> > /dev/pts is root:root here. The files within it are user:tty, but they
> > are neither group readable nor writeable, so the group ownership is
> > possibly not that relevant.  
> 
> Hmm ...
> 
> They are writeable here (with 1 urxvt running):
> 
> /dev/pts:
> total 0
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root    root      0 Jan  2 22:27 .
> drwxr-xr-x 15 root    root   3960 Jan  2 22:28 ..
> crw--w----  1 michael tty  136, 0 Jan  2 22:36 0
> crw--w----  1 michael tty  136, 1 Jan  2 22:51 1
> 
> and with without the writeable bit for group when I also fire a konsole:
> 
> $ ls -la /dev/pts
> total 0
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root    root      0 Jan  2 22:27 .
> drwxr-xr-x 15 root    root   3960 Jan  2 22:28 ..
> crw--w----  1 michael tty  136, 0 Jan  2 22:36 0
> crw--w----  1 michael tty  136, 1 Jan  2 22:52 1
> crw-------  1 michael tty  136, 2 Jan  2 22:55 2
> 
> So, the konsole seems to run with more restrictions than urxvt?

Yes. It was the Konsole ptys I was referring to.


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Neil Bothwick

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