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xlogin bug

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Rolfe)
Mon Oct 19 21:14:40 1998

To: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 21:14:34 EDT
From: Alex Rolfe <arolfe@MIT.EDU>


xlogin fails to call setlogin and setuid due to a typo.  The line :

#ifdef BSD44 
should read
#ifdef BSD4_4

The only effect that I've noticed so far is that all talk requests from
an effected machine say they are from root rather than the user.

Alex Rolfe
arolfe@mit.edu

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