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- From: briggs@cstest.cs.vt.edu (Allen Briggs)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: xterm: Permission Denied
- Message-ID: <Bt8G34.GsC@cstest.cs.vt.edu>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 13:28:16 GMT
- References: <1992Aug18.214058.14232@hparc0.aus.hp.com>
- Organization: Virginia Tech Computer Science Dept, Blacksburg, VA
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- In article <1992Aug18.214058.14232@hparc0.aus.hp.com> harry@hparc0.aus.hp.com (Harry Page) writes:
- >I am having a little trouble running xterms under X386. Every time I try to
- >start an xterm I get a message saying Permission Denied and the xterm dies.
-
- Xterm should be installed setuid. The owner should probably be root or
- whomever owns the tty(/pty/ttyp/whatever)s that it will be allocating.
- In any case, my xterm (not on X386) is owned by root and has permissions
- 4555.
-
- -allen
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