Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1999 09:44:31 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> To: Dave Runkle <drunkle@home.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Eterm only runs as root? Message-ID: <9244.944207071@axl.noc.iafrica.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 02 Dec 1999 22:17:02 PST." <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912022148000.63745-100000@xb.fiddi.com>
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On Thu, 02 Dec 1999 22:17:02 PST, Dave Runkle wrote: > I can't believe that I overlooked this somewhere in the docs, but > Eterm will not run as a regular user for me. I've changed perms on > the /usr/X11R6/bin/Eterm, but it still won't run under any user > except for root. I get seg fault every time. Runs great under root. This isn't so strange. Even the stsock xterm that comes with XFree86 is suid root: ls -l `which xterm` -rws--x--x 1 root wheel 158780 Oct 15 17:32 /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm I believe this is required for manipulation of /etc/utmp. A glance at the manpage suggests that the xterm resource utmpInhibit might get you past the requirement for suid root on the binary. Check the docs for Eterm, though. :-) Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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