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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: killing processes
Message-ID: <10356@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 2 Jun 89 17:13:42 GMT
References: <8373@june.cs.washington.edu> <3440@orca.WV.TEK.COM> <190@sopwith.UUCP> <869@mtxinu.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <869@mtxinu.UUCP> shore@mtxinu.UUCP (Melinda Shore) writes:
>... xterm is usually setuid root so that it can write on utmp.

The following is more a comment for wizards, but:
It really is a shame that a 350Kb program has to be given unlimited access
rights just so it can perform such a simple task.