>At work, we have noticed that sometimes xxgdb failed opening ttypX due to lack
>of permissions giving something like "/dev/ttypX : Permission denied".
>
>To cut a long story short, what we think to have found is that by telnetting
>(rlogin causes it also) to the machine, and then disconnecting, the pseudo tty
>file permissions aren't correctly restored.
A quick fix:
chmod u+s /usr/X11R6/bin/xxgdb
I don' t know if that could raise security issues. To leave the system
secure make xxgdb running only from your group (0750) (and trust users in
your group of course ;-).
>This happens consistently with Kernels 2.0.3[023] on RH4.2 and RH5.0, but not
>with Kernel 2.0.33 on Slackware, so hardly is a kernel problem.
This is __not__ a kernel problem.
Andrea[s] Arcangeli
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