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From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0 xterm problem
Date: 11 Jan 1995 07:15:29 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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In article <3etrdn$get@cs5.cs.ait.ac.th>,
Mano Pallewatta <pall@cs.ait.ac.th> wrote:
>Hi,
>	I am using FreeBSD 2.0 and I find that xterms cannot run with 
>root permissions. Since xterms are SUID root normal users also cannot run 
>them unless SUID bit is removed. Then they are Ok. My H/W config. is 486 

I'm sorry?  Xterm should always be:

jkh@time-> ls -l /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm 
-rwsr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  139264 Nov 12 12:50 /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm

If it's not, then you'll start running into OTHER problems.

					Jordan