Bug 1701
Summary: | gnome-pty-helper's Unix98 pty support is broken. | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Bill Nottingham <notting> |
Component: | gnome-libs | Assignee: | Michael Fulbright <msf> |
Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 6.0 | CC: | rvokal |
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Hardware: | i386 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 1999-03-24 16:57:43 UTC | Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Bill Nottingham
1999-03-23 20:10:17 UTC
The following patch should fix it: --- gnome-libs-1.0.3/zvt/gnome-pty-helper.c.orig Tue Mar 23 15:36:14 1999+++ gnome-libs-1.0.3/zvt/gnome-pty-helper.c Tue Mar 23 15:41:11 1999 @@ -284,7 +284,11 @@ exit (1); } + setegid(pwent->pw_gid); + seteuid(pwent->pw_uid); status = openpty (&master_pty, &slave_pty, term_name, NULL, NULL); + setuid(getuid()); + setgid(getgid()); if (status == -1){ result = 0; write (STDIN_FILENO, &result, sizeof (result)); I will be using the patch supplied when building gnome-core, and I have submitted the patch to the GNOME developers. |