Re: [lfs-dev] Glibc-2.18, pt_chown and terminal emulators

2013-08-20 Thread John Burrell
>Not going to be just konsole; it'll affect any program that tries to >grantpt() as part of the PTY allocation handshake. xterm, aterm, sshd, >expect, you name it. That's right - for e.g. if you chroot into lfs and try and open a teminal in the host, grantpt will fail. So if you get this 'featu

Re: [lfs-dev] Glibc-2.18, pt_chown and terminal emulators

2013-08-19 Thread Bryan Kadzban
Ragnar Thomsen wrote: > In glibc 2.18, the pt_chown binary no longer gets installed by > default due to security reasons. This resulted for me in konsole not > working. I tracked the issue down to the missing pt_chown binary. You shouldn't need pt_chown; devpts just needs to be mounted correctly.

[lfs-dev] Glibc-2.18, pt_chown and terminal emulators

2013-08-19 Thread Ragnar Thomsen
In glibc 2.18, the pt_chown binary no longer gets installed by default due to security reasons. This resulted for me in konsole not working. I tracked the issue down to the missing pt_chown binary. pt_chown can still be installed by supplying the switch --enable-pt_chown to glibc, but as the binar