Subject: Re: Xauthority
To: Stefan Monnier <stefan.monnier@lia.di.epfl.ch>
From: Wayne Berke <berke@panix.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 02/12/1996 07:28:18
In message <199602120829.JAA05301@liasg9.epfl.ch>, "Stefan Monnier" writes:
> > For xterm, it needs to be setuid
> > for a bunch of reasons, one of which is so it can chown your pty to your
> > userid, otherwise there are some kinda-nasty security holes available there
> .
> 
> Well I have changed my xterm's permission to 0755 and it works fine. Only
> detail that doesn't seem to work (obviously) is the "-C" flag. But since I us
> e
> xconsole for that, it's not big deal.
> 

On the other hand, it would be nice to have a read-writeable, line-wrapping
console xterm rather than the brain-dead xconsole.

I haven't been able to get the -C flag to work even _with_ the setuid bit
set.  Has anyone?