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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!xlink.net!pilhuhn!flatlin!bad From: bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org (Christoph Badura) Subject: Re: Repeat of XFree question Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1993 23:50:53 GMT Message-ID: <CHA28u.62L@flatlin.ka.sub.org> References: <11OCT93.08302892@tifrvax.tifr.res.in> <CEt1pD.HK@strix.cluster.sub.org> <CH5LIu.Jnp@sugar.NeoSoft.COM> Organization: Guru Systems/Funware Department Lines: 15 In <CH5LIu.Jnp@sugar.NeoSoft.COM> peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >Odd, it work on Suns. That may depend on whether xterm is installed setuid root or not. > Wonder if there's a security hole lurking there, now >that I think of it. There was a CERT advisory posted last week or the week before re. a xterm security hole when it's setuid root. -- Christoph Badura bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org +49 721 606137 Auf Chroma bestimmen die Frauen? Das ist unglaublich! -- Cliff Alistair McLane, Orion VIII