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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!caen!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!tuegate.tue.nl!svin09!wzv!gvr.win.tue.nl!guido From: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: uid's under Xfree Message-ID: <3957@wzv.win.tue.nl> Date: 7 Oct 92 19:37:14 GMT Sender: news@wzv.win.tue.nl Organization: Guido's home 486 box Lines: 12 I noticed a strange behaviour when i did a talk to another user on my machine. I was logged on using X, under xdm, say as user 'foo'. However when i did that talk request, talk said: respond with talk root@<machine> I dont know where exactly talk gets its uid from, but something serious is wrong here. Maybe I gave the wrong programs an suid bit... The programs involved are xdm, X386 and xterm. Only X386 and xterm have sbits set. Isn't this correct? The output of id also seems correct (it doesn't say i have uid 0). Can anyone explain this? -Guido