Andrea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Il 15/08/2008 alle 10:57, Dr Andrew C Aitchison ha scritto:
>> Login processes have to register with utmp, but not all login >> processes have permission to do this (essentially by writing to >> /var/log/wtmp). xterm is the program which springs to mind as >> sometimes not have having permission to do this. > > Interesting. I don't know much about this topic, so any pointers are > welcome. I don't have access to SL5.1 but on 4.4 xterm has no set-u/g id bit: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> ls -l /usr/bin/xterm -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 258396 Nov 15 2007 /usr/bin/xterm* On my Debian workstation: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> ls -l /usr/bin/xterm -rwxr-sr-x 1 root utmp 318832 Mar 19 10:09 /usr/bin/xterm* [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> ls -l /var/log/wtmp -rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 109440 Aug 15 11:25 /var/log/wtmp So the set-gid utmp lets xterm write to wtmp. I can't conceive of why TUV doesn't do this as well. Cheers, -Brett.
