Re: RedHat 6.0, /dev/pts permissions bug when using xterm

From: Gabriel Krabbe (bbat_private)
Date: Mon Jun 14 1999 - 00:31:07 PDT

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    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
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