Re: a good solution to the libXt problem (really)
Kevin Dalley wrote:
>
> As I remember it, xterm sometimes needs setuid root so that it can
> modify /var/run/utmp. If utmp cannot be written, then xterm will
> still run, but utmp will not be updated. The program "who" uses
xterm needs to be root to chown pseudo tty files.
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