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Re: RedHat4.0 security
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James Youngman)
Fri Nov 22 17:00:59 1996
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From: JYoungman@vggas.com (James Youngman)
Date: 22 Nov 1996 15:14:23 GMT
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In article <5748cv$7ru@halon.vggas.com>, bin@halon.vggas.com says...
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>Borg <please_see@my_signature.below> writes:
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>> This one should go I think:
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>> -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 138420 Sep 10 08:10 /usr/X11R6/bin/nxterm
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>Definitely not. Xterms need to be suid to update wtmp.
...and also to implement the -C option, I think.
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