[89] in Athena User Interface
Re: gnome-terminal doesn't work.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed May 31 18:03:19 2000
Message-Id: <200005312203.SAA26490@small-gods.mit.edu>
To: Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU>
Cc: aui@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 31 May 2000 16:03:18 EDT."
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Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 18:03:15 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> I traced this, and found that zvt (gnome-libs/zvt), a terminal
> widget, uses a suid root helper program.
On Solaris, the relevant libc functions will use a native suid root
helper program (/usr/lib/utmp_update, I think). That doesn't do us
any good except on Solaris, of course.
