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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!vtserf!cstest!briggs From: briggs@cstest.cs.vt.edu (Allen Briggs) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: xterm: Permission Denied Message-ID: <Bt8G34.GsC@cstest.cs.vt.edu> Date: 19 Aug 92 13:28:16 GMT References: <1992Aug18.214058.14232@hparc0.aus.hp.com> Organization: Virginia Tech Computer Science Dept, Blacksburg, VA Lines: 15 In article <1992Aug18.214058.14232@hparc0.aus.hp.com> harry@hparc0.aus.hp.com (Harry Page) writes: >I am having a little trouble running xterms under X386. Every time I try to >start an xterm I get a message saying Permission Denied and the xterm dies. Xterm should be installed setuid. The owner should probably be root or whomever owns the tty(/pty/ttyp/whatever)s that it will be allocating. In any case, my xterm (not on X386) is owned by root and has permissions 4555. -allen -- Allen Briggs | The spirit was freedom and justice briggs@csugrad.cs.vt.edu | Its keepers seemed generous and kind Computer Science | Its leaders were supposed to serve the country Virginia Tech | Now they don't pay it no mind...--Steppenwolf