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From: mouse@LARRY.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU
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Subject: Re:  xterm not setuid?
Message-ID: <9009050653.AA03612@Larry.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
Date: 5 Sep 90 06:53:19 GMT
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> I installed X11R4 library under SunOS 4.1 in a directroy other than
> /usr/lib.  Everything seems fine except xterm cannot find the
> required shared libraries.

Funny, we had no problem under 4.1.  We didn't even have to run
ldconfig.  (Not unless "make World" did that for us and I didn't
notice.)  Well, in any case....

My advice would be to link the setuid/setgid programs (xterm, xload, I
think there's one other) with -Bstatic, to make them independent of the
dynamic libraries.  You can turn off xterm's setuid bit, but then it
will be unable to write entries in utmp (unless you make utmp
world-writable, which opens up other security holes).

					der Mouse

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