ttys, setuid & security...

[Vincent Renardias <vincent@waw.com>]

Has any of you had a look at this:
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/Incoming/pttyd-0.9.tgz

[its LSM file says:

Description:    The Pseudo-tty Daemon.  Changes ownership on the slave
                pseudo-tty's in an appropriate manner, mainaining security 
                without a suid root screen, xterm, or rxvt.
]

Maybe we should consider packaging this, it will allow to remove the 
setuid bit of some programs like xterm, rxvt, ...

Opinions?

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