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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: xterm: no available ptys
Date: 6 Nov 2000 14:04:19 -0800
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By author:    Michael Meissner <meissner@spectacle-pond.org>
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> 
> Did you mount /dev/pts, which is usually done with a line in /etc/fstab:
> 
> none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=0622 0 0
> 

That should be gid=5,mode=0620 unless you *REALLY*, *REALLY* know what
you're doing!!!!  Arguably, that should actually be mode=0600, with
user tty's then being required to chmod to 0620 if they want "mesg y"
by default.

(gid 5 being the gid for group "tty".)

	-hpa
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