Bug 71457 - chownpty failed for device /dev/pts/6::/dev/pts/6.
Summary: chownpty failed for device /dev/pts/6::/dev/pts/6.
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Alias: None
Product: konsole
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: 1.2.3
Platform: RedHat Enterprise Linux Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Konsole Developer
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Reported: 2003-12-29 23:22 UTC by Luca Diamanti
Modified: 2004-01-13 19:34 UTC (History)
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Description Luca Diamanti 2003-12-29 23:22:07 UTC 
Version:           1.2.3 (using KDE KDE 3.1.4)
Installed from:    RedHat RPMs
OS:          Linux

Starting Kate under Konsole I get the following messages:
konsole: cannot chown /dev/pts/6.
Reason: Operation not permitted
konsole_grantpty not installed root-suid
konsole: chownpty failed for device /dev/pts/6::/dev/pts/6.
       : This means the session can be eavesdroped.
       : Make sure konsole_grantpty is installed in
       : /usr/bin/ and setuid root.

The number after /dev/pts/ can be another.

It seems there is no other malfunction.

Bye. Luca
Comment 1 Oswald Buddenhagen 2004-01-13 19:34:31 UTC 
guess what that means:
> Reason: Operation not permitted
> konsole_grantpty not installed root-suid

given that you used redhat packages, they are probably to blame.
otherwise the problem would have been that "make install" was not done as root.