[debian-users:15347] Re: suid root (Re: rxvt-xterm and krxvt)

[Taketoshi Sano <xlj06203@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

佐野＠浜松です。

 debian-devel@lists.debian.org でこんなメールを見ました。

> From: Branden Robinson <branden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: preparation for freezes, release coordination
> Message-ID: <19990509164225.A264@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> In exchange for being a good boy this time, I'd like some time to implement
> some important changes.  Among the things on my "Looking ahead" list at the
> X Strike Force page, a few things spring to mind as especially important:
> 
> 1) See what we can do about getting rid of xterm's setuid bit.  Wichert
> just made a proposal that may solve this.
> 2) Get the Unix98 PTY stuff firmly integrated, and get xterm writing to the
> utmp, wtmp, and lastlog files all appropriately.
> 3) Revisit the much-loathed "xterm-debian" issue and see if I can come up
> with something that will make people in heterogeneous environments happier.
> (If the X Consortium hadn't released a ballsed-up xterm in X11R6 all those
> years ago, much of this frustration wouldn't have happened.)
> 4) Get xfs running as its own user, not as root.
> 5) Further examine PAM-ification issues of xdm and the X server.  The X
> server might be straightforward, but apparently there are deficiencies in
> the design of xdm as far as good PAM support is concerned.

これが実現すれば xterm の suid root は必要無くなりそうですね。

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    <xlj06203@xxxxxxxxxxx> : Taketoshi Sano (佐野　武俊)