Re: Rxvt and resources
Carlos Alberto Carvalho writes:
>
> Maarten Boekhold (boekhold@cindy.et.tudelft.nl) wrote on 6 March 1996 19:28:
> >Is there a global place I can put resources for rxvt? I now have them in
> >my .Xdefaults, but would like them to be available all over the system. I
> >tried putting it in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/lib/app-defaults/Rxvt, but this
> >doesn't work. /etc/X11/Xresources doesn't seem to be a logical place too....
>
> Well, I think it is a good place... Anyway, you have to compile rxvt
> without the fake-resources option. You could also use the latest
> version of rxvt, 2.14, and NOT make it suid. If you want to have utmp
> records, put utmp in a group together with rxvt, and give it group
> write permission.
>
> I already said that rxvt should not be suid root, but the maintainer
> claims it should be like xterm. I agree it should be like xterm, ie.
> both should not be suid root. This is a bug in X11, and I think debian
> should correct it.
I agree this is a good idea and I'll change rxvt if there is a consensis
and we have a actual group, should we use the tty group or make a new one?
It's not just a X problem though, how many other programs out there deal with
utmp and wtmp?
Andrew
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