On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 10:23:53PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > The ioctl call fails (EPERM) because only superuser can use TIOCCONS, > > regardless the ownership of the device. Using xterm with the "-C" > > argument works because xterm is installed with the setuid flag bit on. > > So the solution is "chmod +us xconsole". > > Can someone security audit this program before blindly setuid-root'ing > it?
Isn't xconsole not just the same values as /var/log/messages ? So information-leaking-wise it isn't a huge deal. Only the program itself is now the unknown. Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis Website: http://www.mavetju.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Weblog: http://www.mavetju.org/weblog/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"