On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 06:19:19PM -0400, Brian Mays wrote:
> With the release of a new version of rxvt that uses the unix98 ptys,
> rxvt no longer needs to be setuid root. It can instead be made setgid
> tty if the utmp/wtmp files are owned by the tty group and made group
> writable.
>
> How should this be handled? Currently on my system (running the
> unstable distribution), the utmp/wtmp files are owned by root.root and
> are mode 644. What should be done to correct this? Should rxvt's
> postinst script offer to change the modes of these files or should that
> be done elsewhere by another package?
sgid utmp when base-passwd gets updated. Should happen soon.
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