Bug#611487: xterm: immediately exits upon running: exec login USER
Control: reassign -1 libutempter0
Control: affects -1 xterm screen tmux
On 2011-01-29 17:02 -0500, Jeffrey Sheinberg wrote:
> Package: xterm
> Version: 261-1
> Severity: normal
>
> Hi,
>
> First of all, please note that I currently have xterm Version: 235-2
> installed.
>
> With xterm Version: 261-1 installed, when I run this command,
>
> $ exec login USER
>
> the xterm immediately exits. This problem does not occur with prior
> versions of xterm installed, eg, Version: 235-2.
The reason is that starting with version 247-1 xterm is no longer setgid
but uses libutemper to update /var/run/utmp. The same behavior can be
seen in screen and tmux which also terminate immediately upon
"exec login USER".
Cheers,
Sven
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