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Subject: ports/11977: Eterm port is unable to access .Xauthority
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>Number:         11977
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       Eterm port is unable to access .Xauthority
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Jun  1 08:30:02 PDT 1999
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Mohit Aron
>Release:        FreeBSD-3.2-RELEASE
>Organization:
Rice University
>Environment:
FreeBSD luzern.cs.rice.edu 3.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE #2: Fri May 28 15:22:48 CDT 1999     aron@luzern.cs.rice.edu:/usr/src/sys/compile/LUZERN  i386
>Description:

The eterm-0.8.8 package supplied with FreeBSD-3.2-RELEASE is unable
to my .Xauthority file. I mount my home directory using NFS that maps
the "root" on my machine to "nobody" for accesses to my filesystem.
Since Eterm runs as a setuid program, it has trouble reading my 
.Xauthority file.

I exchanged a few emails with the developers of Eterm and it seems they
already have support for this in the source. Apparently, the package
needs to be compiled after defining HAVE_SAVED_UIDS in src/feature.h
and NEED_LINUX_HACK in src/main.c. Can you please define the above
so that Eterm is able to read NFS mounted .Xauthority files.

>How-To-Repeat:

Mount your home directory using NFS and use .Xauthority based X server
authentication. Make sure that the NFS server maps "root" on your machine
to "nobody" (or something else). Notice that while xterm works correctly,
Eterm does not.

>Fix:


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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