On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 06:39:51PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > Here's a possible fix. Olaf had a different one, but it is applicable only > to Linux distributions that use Red Hat's utempter apparatus, which I > understand is a kind of clone of utmpd. Just to clarify this a little; the patch I did was not for this specifiy problem; it's purpose is to do away with the setuid root requirement for xterm altogether. The only two reasons for requiring a setuid root bit on xterm are ptys (taken care of by /dev/pts nowadays), and utmp management (which we're currently doing using utempter). The same holds for kterm and kconsole, as well as the gnome counterparts I assume. Olaf -- Olaf Kirch | --- o --- Nous sommes du soleil we love when we play okirat_private | / | \ sol.dhoop.naytheet.ah kin.ir.samse.qurax okirat_private +-------------------- Why Not?! ----------------------- UNIX, n.: Spanish manufacturer of fire extinguishers.
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