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Re: X and xterm suid root in new X packages?



On Thu, Feb 11, 1999 at 12:09:34PM -0600, chomsky@debian.org wrote:
> 
> This morning I woke up to this cronjob message:
> 
> /etc/cron.daily/suidmanager:
> /usr/X11R6/bin/X PERMISSION MISMATCH: was root.root 755 changed to root.root
> 4755
> /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm PERMISSION MISMATCH: was root.root 755 changed to 
> root.root 4755
> 
> I installed the new potato X packages last night.  Please tell me
> others have seen this also!  If i'm the only one this happened to and
> it's not the doing of the packager....  (shudder)

Don't freak out.  After the great X reorganization, I started using
suidregister on X and xterm.  They've always been setuid root.

-- 
G. Branden Robinson              |   It was a typical net.exercise -- a
Debian GNU/Linux                 |   screaming mob pounding on a greasy spot
branden@ecn.purdue.edu           |   on the pavement, where used to lie the
cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ |   carcass of a dead horse.

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