Now that we have working Unix98 ptys for all systems (except m68k, which doesn't want to move to glibc2.1 for some reason?) we no longer need to make a process setuid root just to create a new pty. This includes programs like xterm. There is a slight problem though: utmp. Currently only root can update the utmp. To solve this I propose we create an utmp group and put in policy that programs that want to modify the utmp should be setgid utmp instead of setuid root (unless root is needed for other purposes of course). Wichert. -- ============================================================================== This combination of bytes forms a message written to you by Wichert Akkerman. E-Mail: wichert@cs.leidenuniv.nl WWW: http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~wichert/
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