On Friday, June 11, 1999, Scott Wunsch wrote: >> This is not sufficient when using rxvt and apparently several other >> xterm-a-likes. By default rxvt overides the gid with the user's gid >> and changes the permissions to 622, even if the permissions specified >> in fstab are more restrictive than 622. The solution with rxvt is to >> pass --enable-ttygid to the configure script. > > I've been playing with this, and --enable-ttygid isn't enough either. It looks > like rxvt has to bee suid root in order to set the gid on the tty. Mortals > can't do it: chmod g+s /usr/X11R6/bin/rxvt Gabriel Krabbe -- Some days, nothing goes left.
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