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Manual Reference Pages  - kgrantpty (7)

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kgrantpty - konsole uses this to securely open a slave pty

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kgrantpty [OPTION] [FILE]

kgrantpty is only intended to be used internally by konsole to open a slave pty securely. It performs a setuid chmod and chown on the slave pty device. Eavesdropping is prevented with the usage of a file handle as an argument. KPty automatically calls this tool, and it is not intended to be called from the command line.

	--grant grant secure setuid root chmod and chown to the file descriptor
	--revoke revoke the secure setuid root chmod and chown from the file descriptor

kgrantpty must be used as setuid root.

ttyname(3), forkpty(3), tty(4), pty(7)

Manpage written by Rodrigo Rubira Branco <rrbranco@br.ibm.com>

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