From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 4 19:27:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mcferrin.cs.colostate.edu (mcferrin.CS.ColoState.EDU [129.82.45.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C08EF37B850 for ; Sat, 4 Mar 2000 19:27:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kunze@CS.ColoState.EDU) Received: from localhost (kunze@localhost) by mcferrin.cs.colostate.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA29825 for ; Sat, 4 Mar 2000 20:27:04 -0700 (MST) Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 20:27:03 -0700 (MST) From: "Small, but frustrating." To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: suid-root cxterm? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG i just installed cxterm from the ports collection and for some reason the binary was installed suid root. i couldn't find any mention of this in the docs, and everything seems to work fine when i give it more reasonable permissions. is there any reaon that it should be installed this way? [this space irrationally left blank] matt kunze To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message