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- From: gerth@watson.ibm.com (John Gerth)
- Subject: Re: xterm and utmp
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 02:26:47 GMT
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- I believe there are at least 3 conditions to be met for xterm to write
- in utmp:
- (1) You have to have all the correct defines set up so that the
- in the code for it is present in the binary.
- (2) The various switches/resources at invocation have to work out
- so that the effect is "+ut" and thus 'xterm' will attempt to update utmp.
- and
- (3) /etc/utmp has to be writable by 'xterm'. On most systems, this
- means that 'xterm' has to be setuid root.
-
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- John Gerth gerth@watson.ibm.com (914) 784-7639
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