[pptp-server] Re: [pptp-server] PTY??
David Luyer
luyer at ucs.uwa.edu.au
Thu Jul 1 00:54:46 CDT 1999
> The documentation says that I need to make sure my kernel is compiled with
> PTY support. What is PTY support and what options in the kernel do I need
> to modify. I'm using the kernel that came with RedHat-6.0 - do I need to
> change the config and recompile or is there a system configuration I need
> to worry about?
No. Almost all kernels will have PTY support unless you've deliberately
removed it, so don't worry.
> Also, after running pptpd and monitoring its log file and seeing that it
> failed to open ttyp1 - I chmod +rw /dev/ttyp[0-9] and it seemed to work
> somewhat. But, after I rebooted, I had to do this again. Is this normal?
pptpd should be running as root (unless you have a system with a setuid
openpty() helper, which isn't very common). If it fails to open a pty/tty
pair as root then that is probably because it is in use.
Other programs which use pty/tty's will change their permissions back to
the standard ones.
David.
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