Re: suid-root xterm

[Dave Wreski]

> Why are xterm, nxterm, rxvt and friends suid root?
> To be able to write to /var/log/wtmp and/or /var/run/utmp maybe?
> Any other reasons they should/shouldn't be suid-root?

Yes, exactly.  

Dave



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