kgrantpty

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 han-
       dle as an argument. KPty automatically 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 <rrbranco@br.ibm.com>



KDE Library			 May 16, 2006			 kgrantpty(7)