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Date:      Sun, 23 Jan 2005 23:17:17 +0100
From:      Dejan Lesjak <dejan.lesjak@ijs.si>
To:        Rostislav Krasny <rosti_bsd@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-x11@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: same to the ports/51632 PR but in Xorg 6.8.1
Message-ID:  <200501232317.17851.dejan.lesjak@ijs.si>
In-Reply-To: <20050123215010.35354.qmail@web14821.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20050123215010.35354.qmail@web14821.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Sunday 23 of January 2005 22:50, Rostislav Krasny wrote:
> --- Dejan Lesjak <dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> wrote:
> > On Sunday 23 of January 2005 18:45, Rostislav Krasny wrote:
> > > Hello there.
> > >
> > > I use FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p5 with current ports. No metter what locale
> >
> > I've
> >
> > > set, when I run 'xterm -lc &' I see following message in the new xterm
> > > window:
> > >
> > > Warning: could not change ownership of tty -- pty is insecure!
> > >
> > > This is the same problem described in the ports/51632 PR about XFree86
> > > version of luit(1). Could you please fix it in the Xorg 6.8.1 port too?
> >
> > The same fix is already there. To quote a message from xorg-clients port:
> >
> > If you want to use xterm with locales in a secure manner, luit must be
> > installed setuid.  If you want to do this, hit Ctrl-C now and use
> > "make WITH_SETUID_LUIT=yes"
>
> Thank you very much for quick response and this explanation. I didn't see
> that message from xorg-clients port because instead of building each part
> of the Xorg ports collection separately I builded and installed the X.Org
> distribution metaport wich have xorg-clients as a dependecy. If
> WITH_SETUID_LUIT could be set during 'make config' I was never missed this
> configuration option. What do you think about making the WITH_SETUID_LUIT
> so?

You mean converting X11 ports to use OPTIONS? Hmm. Right now I'm a bit 
sceptical about this - there appear to be some trouble with using this stuff 
and as far as I know a better framework is being worked on and I wanted to 
wait for that to become available before I try playing with this.


Dejan



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