On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 10:37:09AM -0800, wa1ter@myrealbox.com wrote:
> Due to a disk crash I had to reinstall -current from scratch.  There is
> just one lingering problem with permissions before I'm back to normal.
> 
> When I use startx as an ordinary user most everything works except
> xterm and gnome-terminal.
> 
> The problem with xterm is this:
>    595 xterm    NAMI  "/dev/ptyp0"
>    595 xterm    RET   open 5
>    595 xterm    CALL  getuid
>    595 xterm    RET   getuid 1000/0x3e8, 1000/0x3e8
>    595 xterm    CALL  chown(0x482e1490,0x3e8,4)
>    595 xterm    NAMI  "/dev/ttyp0"
>    595 xterm    RET   chown -1 errno 1 Operation not permitted
> 
> xterm tries to chown ttyp0 to my UID (1000) and fails.  If I make
> xterm SUID (like FreeBSD) then it works.  But xterm wasn't SUID
> before the disk crash and I don't think it should be necessary.

For me it is:
MEniac% ls -l `which xterm`
-r-sr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  272314 Aug 10 16:10 /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm

> 
> Am I missing something obvious?
> 
> Thanks for any ideas.
> 
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