Bugtraq: Re: IFS

[Wolfram.Schmidt () iao fhg de (Wolfram Schmidt)]

] ObBug: /usr/openin/bin/xterm under SunOs 4.1.x will leave the tty mode
] 666 as stated here previously. After opening a call with Sun, they will
] not fix it, because they have to rewrite most of their OS, despite the
] fact that xterm released with X11R5 doesn't have this problem.
] 
] Ciao,
] 
] -- 
] Richard Bainter          Mundanely     |    System Analyst        - OMG/CSD
] Pug                      Generally     |    Applied Research Labs - U.Texas
]  pug () arlut utexas edu  |  pug () bga com  |  pug () eden com  |  {any user} () pug net
] Note: The views may not reflect my employers, or even my own for that matter.
] 

If you do 'chmod u+s /usr/openwin/bin/xterm' the problem will go away.
But then you have other problems (e.g. race condition with log file).

This is the reason i did the following:

commix# ls -l /usr/openwin/bin/xterm*
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root           22 Feb 11 02:20 /usr/openwin/bin/xterm -> xterm.x11r5.semisecure
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root       212992 Sep 26  1991 /usr/openwin/bin/xterm.sun
---s--x--x  1 root       786432 Nov 14  1993 /usr/openwin/bin/xterm.x11r5.semisecure
commix# 

The xterm.x11r5.semisecure contains a patch posted to some newsgroup or
mailinglist reducing the chances to be successfull exploitung the race
condition with logfiles. I did not want to loose the logging capability.
It is so big because teh X11R5 X* libraries are statically linked.


-Wolfram


-- 
Email: Wolfram.Schmidt () iao fhg de
Voice: +49 711 970 2431
Fax: +49 711 970 2401
Office: Fraunhofer-Institut IAO, Holzgartenstr. 17, 70174 Stuttgart, Germany