FL> newly built xfree86 4.3:
FL> when I run xterm, it gives:
FL> Warning: could not change ownership of tty -- pty is insecure!

That's luit.

FL> I tried with and without setuid-root, same problem.

It's *luit* that must be setuid root, not XTerm.

Note that due to a misunderstanding of saved-id semantics, the version
of luit in 4.3 cannot be made setuid root on FreeBSD and NetBSD
systems (OpenBSD is okay).  I've submitted a fix, I don't know if it
got in yet.

                                        Juliusz

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