Bob Ham <u9rah@dcs.shef.ac.uk> writes: > node@genius:~/proj/flac$ ls -l `which xterm` > -rwxr-sr-x 1 root utmp 263004 Mar 4 13:01 /usr/bin/X11/xterm > > It's now not g+s and it does work.. weird (to me, at least.) Execution of setuid or setgid binaries ignores LD_LIBRARY_PATH (and a bunch of other environment variables). Honoring the value of LD_LIBRARY_PATH would open huge security holes. /Niels