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[Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>]

On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 06:11:56PM -0700, Seth Alan Woolley wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 12:53:32AM +0200, Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> > I can't really help you since i don't use kde, but it could be
> > permission problems. That xterm works isn't proof that permissions are
> > ok since xterm is installed suid root, so you may try to check
> > permissions (though i have no idea for what and where :)
> 
> So, do you know why rxvt isn't setuid but xterm is?  If there's no
> reason to have xterm be setuid, I'd prefer we not have it setuid by
> default.
> 
> Seth

I googled for that once, it was done so it can change the
owner/permissions on its tty device so no other user can screw with it.
But i just checked, with devpts/devfs that's done automatically, so it's
probably not needed anymore.

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