Matthew Miller (mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > > On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 12:08:43PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > > > +/usr/bin/screen root utmp -rwxr-sr-x > > This looks wrong.... if it's using utempter, why is it setgid? > > I wondered too, so I poked into it a bit... last changelog entry: > > * Tue Mar 29 2005 Petr Rockai <prockai@xxxxxxxxxx> - 4.0.2-8 > - fix BR 150392 by implementing the setgid/utmp scheme for socket directory > > And <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=150392> > > Looks like it basically comes down to the "private tmpdir" issue.... Hm, so utmp was chosen as a random group b/c it happened to already be setgid utmp on some other distro? Bad idea. Bill
