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Date:      Thu, 11 Jan 1996 01:00:17 -0800 (PST)
From:      Paul Traina <pst>
To:        CVS-committers, cvs-ports
Subject:   cvs commit: ports/x11/rxvt/patches patch-ac
Message-ID:  <199601110900.BAA11900@freefall.freebsd.org>

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pst         96/01/11 01:00:16

  Added:       x11/rxvt/patches  patch-ac
  Log:
  Patch around a security vulnerability in rxvt.  Give up root privileges when
  they're not necessary.  RXVT's handling of /etc/utmp is blatantly idiotic
  under FreeBSD but at least it's not a security hole anymore.
  
  Obtained from: Marc Ewing (marc@redhat.com) from BUGTRAQ mailing list.



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