Bug 30389 - Default xterm permissions incorrect.
Summary: Default xterm permissions incorrect.
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: XFree86
Version: 7.1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Mike A. Harris
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-03-02 22:13 UTC by D. Stimits
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:31 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2001-03-02 22:13:10 UTC
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Description D. Stimits 2001-03-02 22:13:07 UTC 
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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.15-config.2 i686)


Default permissions of XFree86-4.0.2-6 xterm is executable only for root.
No other user
can use xterm. Fix requires chmod ug+x /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Redhat 7.1 beta (Fisher)
2. Attempt to use xterm as a non-privileged user.

	

Actual Results:  Permission denied.

Expected Results:  An xterm should execute.

Fix is via root using:
chmod go+x /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm
Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2001-03-02 22:22:09 UTC 
This is fixed in the current packages.
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