Rob Hudson wrote: > Is it ok what I did? I think so. RedHat, Gentoo, and Debian woody use a permission of crw-rw-rw- for /dev/ptmx. /dev/ptmx is used to allocate ptys, and allocating a pty shouldn't need to be a privileged operation. -- Bob Miller K<bob> kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com kbob at jogger-egg.com