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Bug 315261

Summary:	libutempter requires applications to have setgid utempter
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar>
Component:	libutempter	Assignee:	Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	desktop-bugs <desktop-bugs>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	urgent
Version:	5.1	CC:	rvokal
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Last Closed:	2008-08-06 10:48:30 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	246063
Bug Blocks:	309691

Description Miroslav Lichvar 2007-10-02 11:14:03 UTC

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #246063 +++

Description of problem:
Since FC6 the utemper binary is hidden in /usr/libexec/utempter and applications
using libutempter are required to have setgid utempter. This is causing problems
as the applications have removed some environment variables like LD_LIBRARY_PATH
and TMPDIR (see bug #229360).

Please move the utempter binary back to /usr/sbin and drop utempter group, or
change permissions of the directory to 755.

Comment 1 Søren Sandmann Pedersen 2008-01-04 21:10:34 UTC

Andreas has fixed/is fixing this in Fedora - to get things changed in RHEL,
we'll need a bug that goes through issue tracker.

Comment 2 Radek Vokál 2008-01-07 12:25:02 UTC

This bug blocks xterm update. Please don't close it.

Comment 3 Denise Dumas 2008-01-31 19:29:53 UTC

This problem is blocking 309691, which we would like to fix on the 5.3 Fasttrack. 
This also needs to move to 5.3 Fasttrack.

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2008-08-06 10:48:30 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0652.html