[10818] in bugtraq
Re: RedHat 6.0, /dev/pts permissions bug when using xterm
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gabriel Krabbe)
Mon Jun 14 14:42:52 1999
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Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 09:31:07 +0200
Reply-To: Gabriel Krabbe <bb@ucrc.org>
From: Gabriel Krabbe <bb@UCRC.ORG>
X-To: Scott Wunsch <scott@WUNSCH.ORG>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
On Friday, June 11, 1999, Scott Wunsch wrote:
>> This is not sufficient when using rxvt and apparently several other
>> xterm-a-likes. By default rxvt overides the gid with the user's gid
>> and changes the permissions to 622, even if the permissions specified
>> in fstab are more restrictive than 622. The solution with rxvt is to
>> pass --enable-ttygid to the configure script.
>
> I've been playing with this, and --enable-ttygid isn't enough either. It looks
> like rxvt has to bee suid root in order to set the gid on the tty. Mortals
> can't do it:
chmod g+s /usr/X11R6/bin/rxvt
Gabriel Krabbe
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