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  1. Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!news.duc.auburn.edu!netman!elling
  3. From: elling@eng.auburn.edu (Richard Elling)
  4. Subject: Re: cmdtool and utmp
  5. Message-ID: <1993Jan5.235350.20135@news.duc.auburn.edu>
  6. Sender: usenet@news.duc.auburn.edu (News Account)
  7. Nntp-Posting-Host: netman.eng.auburn.edu
  8. Reply-To: elling@eng.auburn.edu
  9. Organization: Auburn University Engineering
  10. References: <1i4lj9INNaad@emory.mathcs.emory.edu>
  11. Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 23:53:50 GMT
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  13.  
  14. In article 1i4lj9INNaad@emory.mathcs.emory.edu, km@mathcs.emory.edu (Ken Mandelberg) writes:
  15. >cmdtool (like xterm) wants to write to utmp when it runs, and
  16. >
  17. >Is there a trick for getting cmdtool to work properly with a
  18. >secure utmp?
  19.  
  20. This behaviour has much history.  However, it is fixed in Solaris 2.x.
  21. The Solaris 2.x fix doesn't require that xterm or cmdtool be setuid
  22. root.  The actual writing to /var/adm/utmp[x] is done by login.  This
  23. is probably how it should really be done: does it really make sense for
  24. a terminal emulator to change accounting information?
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  27.  Richard Elling                          Manager of Network Support
  28.  Auburn University                       Engineering Administration
  29.  richard.elling@eng.auburn.edu   KB4HB [44.100.0.72]  (205)844-2280
  30.  Type-5 keyboard survival: xmodmap -e "keysym BackSpace = Delete"
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