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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:15798 comp.os.386bsd.misc:4767 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0 xterm problem Date: 11 Jan 1995 07:15:29 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 15 Message-ID: <3f00ih$d82@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <3etrdn$get@cs5.cs.ait.ac.th> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu In article <3etrdn$get@cs5.cs.ait.ac.th>, Mano Pallewatta <pall@cs.ait.ac.th> wrote: >Hi, > I am using FreeBSD 2.0 and I find that xterms cannot run with >root permissions. Since xterms are SUID root normal users also cannot run >them unless SUID bit is removed. Then they are Ok. My H/W config. is 486 I'm sorry? Xterm should always be: jkh@time-> ls -l /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm -rwsr-xr-x 1 root wheel 139264 Nov 12 12:50 /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm If it's not, then you'll start running into OTHER problems. Jordan