kgrantpty(7)                                             KDE Library Bin                                            kgrantpty(7)



NAME
       kgrantpty - konsole uses this to securely open a slave pty

SYNOPSIS
       kgrantpty [OPTION] [FILE]

DESCRIPTION
       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 automati-
       cally calls this tool, and it is not intended to be called from the command line.

OPTIONS
       --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

SECURITY
       kgrantpty must be used as setuid root.

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

AUTHOR
       Manpage written by Rodrigo Rubira Branco <rrbrancoATbr.com>



KDE Library                                               May 16, 2006                                              kgrantpty(7)