rawhide report: 20070119 changes

[Miroslav Lichvar]

On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 06:34:49PM +0100, Tomasz Kłoczko wrote:
> Dnia 19-01-2007, pią o godzinie 03:12 -0500, buildsys at redhat.com
> napisał(a):
> > xterm-223-2.fc7
> > ---------------
> > * Thu Jan 18 2007 Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar at redhat.com> 223-2
> > - make xterm binary sgid utempter (#222847)
> > - fix font size changes with -fa option (#222340)
> > - fix redrawing of internal border (#223027)
> > - enable metaSendsEscape resource and set modifyFunctionKeys to 0 by
> > default
> 
> Moment .. if xterm realy uses libutempter why xterm binary must be sgid
> utempter ?

# ls -la /usr/libexec/utempter
total 28
drwx--x---  2 root utempter 4096 Jan 13 04:05 .
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root     4096 Jan 20 04:03 ..
-rwx--s--x  1 root utmp     9952 Jul 27 22:25 utempter

The idea is, if I understand it correctly, that only selected programs
can execute the binary and modify utmp.

-- 
Miroslav Lichvar