On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 06:24:41PM -0400, war wrote: > On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Thomas E. Dickey wrote: > > On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, war wrote: > > > Slackware Linux 9.0 > > > > on Slackware, utmp is owned by root, so xterm has to be setuid'd to root > > so it can modify that file: > > > > -rws--x--x 1 root bin 246588 Mar 2 02:52 /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm > > Ah, thank you!
I don't suppose I have to explain why that's a Really Bad Approach. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Member of the Technical Staff Baylink RFC 2100 The Suncoast Freenet The Things I Think Tampa Bay, Florida http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 OS X: Because making Unix user-friendly was easier than debugging Windows -- Simon Slavin, on a.f.c _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
