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From: wheeler@jeckle.mitre.org (Brien L. Wheeler)
Subject: Re: xterm: Permission Denied
Message-ID: <1992Aug19.153708.23497@linus.mitre.org>
Sender: wheeler@jeckle (Brien L. Wheeler)
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Organization: The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA
References: <1992Aug18.214058.14232@hparc0.aus.hp.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 15:37:08 GMT
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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.
> This is probably something very obvious but it has come to me yet. Any ideas?
>
> Cheers
> Harry
xterm must be installed setuid root.
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