[10790] in bugtraq
Re: [linux-security] Re: RedHat 6.0,
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ryanw@INFOHWY.COM)
Thu Jun 10 14:44:29 1999
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Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 08:45:54 -0500
Reply-To: ryanw@infohwy.com
From: ryanw@INFOHWY.COM
X-To: Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.990610043925.6123Q-100000@blues.jpj.net>
I maintain the rxvt rpms and rxvt-2.6.0 is out, it can be found
at ftp://ftp.falsehope.com/pub/rxvt. The author/maintainer of the
source requested I put that configure option in back in version
rxvt-2.6.PRE3 :)
On 10 Jun, Trevor Johnson wrote:
> Brian's fix works for me. I did up an SRPM (unsigned) with it in:
>
> http://linuxatlax.org/trevor/srpms/rxvt-2.6.PRE2-6.src.rpm
>
> Brian D. Winters <brianw@ALUMNI.CALTECH.EDU> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 10:24:29AM -0700, Zack wrote:
>> > in /etc/fstab:
>> >
>> > none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
>>
>> 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.
> __
> Trevor Johnson
>
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