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On Mon, 18 Nov 2002 07:42:53 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Nov 2002 02:27:15 -0500 (EST)
> R P Herrold <herrold@owlriver.xxx> wrote:
>
> # Warning: This program is an suid-root program or is being run by the
> # root user. The full text of the error or warning message cannot be
> # safely formatted in this environment. You may get a more descriptive
> # message by running the program as a non-root user or by removing the
> # suid bit on the executable. xterm Xt error: Can't open display: %s
>
> Wait a second, why in gods name is xterm suid root? It's not on my
> 8.0 box, neither is my term of choice, aterm...
Above messages reads "... _or_ is being run by the root user".
Btw, Valhalla's xterm is not suid-root either:
$ stat $(which xterm)
File: "/usr/X11R6/bin/xterm"
Size: 228720 Blocks: 456 IO Block: -4611694951959359488 Regular File
Device: 308h/776d Inode: 64121 Links: 1
Access: (0755/-rwxr-xr-x) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root)
Access: Mon Nov 18 17:45:44 2002
Modify: Fri Apr 19 05:12:37 2002
Change: Wed May 29 13:40:32 2002
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