[1017] in bugtraq
Re: IFS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wolfram Schmidt)
Thu Feb 16 21:01:41 1995
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 1995 01:01:34 +0100
From: Wolfram Schmidt <Wolfram.Schmidt@iao.fhg.de>
To: bugtraq@fc.net
] ObBug: /usr/openin/bin/xterm under SunOs 4.1.x will leave the tty mode
] 666 as stated here previously. After opening a call with Sun, they will
] not fix it, because they have to rewrite most of their OS, despite the
] fact that xterm released with X11R5 doesn't have this problem.
]
] Ciao,
]
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If you do 'chmod u+s /usr/openwin/bin/xterm' the problem will go away.
But then you have other problems (e.g. race condition with log file).
This is the reason i did the following:
commix# ls -l /usr/openwin/bin/xterm*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 22 Feb 11 02:20 /usr/openwin/bin/xterm -> xterm.x11r5.semisecure
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 212992 Sep 26 1991 /usr/openwin/bin/xterm.sun
---s--x--x 1 root 786432 Nov 14 1993 /usr/openwin/bin/xterm.x11r5.semisecure
commix#
The xterm.x11r5.semisecure contains a patch posted to some newsgroup or
mailinglist reducing the chances to be successfull exploitung the race
condition with logfiles. I did not want to loose the logging capability.
It is so big because teh X11R5 X* libraries are statically linked.
-Wolfram
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