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Bug 1701

Summary:	gnome-pty-helper's Unix98 pty support is broken.
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Component:	gnome-libs	Assignee:	Michael Fulbright <msf>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	6.0	CC:	rvokal
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
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Last Closed:	1999-03-24 16:57:43 UTC	Type:	---
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Description Bill Nottingham 1999-03-23 20:10:17 UTC

It creates /dev/pts entries owned by root,
not by the actual user. This causes problems
later on when you try to write to your
own terminal...

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 1999-03-23 20:46:59 UTC

The following patch should fix it:
--- gnome-libs-1.0.3/zvt/gnome-pty-helper.c.orig	Tue Mar 23 15:36:14
1999+++ gnome-libs-1.0.3/zvt/gnome-pty-helper.c	Tue Mar 23 15:41:11
1999
@@ -284,7 +284,11 @@
 		exit (1);
 	}

+        setegid(pwent->pw_gid);
+        seteuid(pwent->pw_uid);
 	status = openpty (&master_pty, &slave_pty, term_name, NULL, NULL);
+        setuid(getuid());
+        setgid(getgid());
 	if (status == -1){
 		result = 0;
 		write (STDIN_FILENO, &result, sizeof (result));

Comment 2 Michael Fulbright 1999-03-24 16:57:59 UTC

I will be using the patch supplied when building gnome-core,
and I have submitted the patch to the GNOME developers.