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a good solution to the libXt problem (really)

Kevin Dalley suggests:
> 1.  In the xbase package, the permission of xterm should be set to
> 755.  This xterm will work fine.

No, I'm afraid this is no good.  It's still a security problem.

You see, xterm needs to be root to change the ownership on the pty
slave it's using; otherwise, anyone can open that pty and do nasty
things like reading keystrokes.

This problem is more general than just xterm - script has it too (my
Bug#988) - but it's hard to fix in many programs and you can just
avoid using them.  It's much harder to avoid using xterm ...

Ian.


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