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rxvt and utmp



Hi,

I noticed that in Debian rxvt (a version of xterm not consuming 1.5 MB)
updates /var/run/utmp by setuid root. Wouldn't it be safer to have

	addgroup utmp
	chgrp utmp /usr/bin/rxvt /var/run/utmp
	chmod g+s /usr/bin/rxvt
	chmod g+w /var/run/utmp

or something the like?

---david


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