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From: briggs@cstest.cs.vt.edu (Allen Briggs)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: xterm: Permission Denied
Message-ID: <Bt8G34.GsC@cstest.cs.vt.edu>
Date: 19 Aug 92 13:28:16 GMT
References: <1992Aug18.214058.14232@hparc0.aus.hp.com>
Organization: Virginia Tech Computer Science Dept, Blacksburg, VA
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In article <1992Aug18.214058.14232@hparc0.aus.hp.com> harry@hparc0.aus.hp.com (Harry Page) writes:
>I am having a little trouble running xterms under X386. Every time I try to
>start an xterm I get a message saying Permission Denied and the xterm dies.

Xterm should be installed setuid.  The owner should probably be root or
whomever owns the tty(/pty/ttyp/whatever)s that it will be allocating.
In any case, my xterm (not on X386) is owned by root and has permissions
4555.

-allen
-- 
Allen Briggs             | The spirit was freedom and justice
briggs@csugrad.cs.vt.edu | Its keepers seemed generous and kind
Computer Science         | Its leaders were supposed to serve the country
Virginia Tech            | Now they don't pay it no mind...--Steppenwolf