On 20040430.1711, Bob Miller said ... > 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. So this was a new install of Debian... is this a bug?