Re: setuid bit neccesary for GNOME?

[jason petrone <jp demonseed net>]

On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 12:41:17PM +0100, Andreas L. Gustafsson wrote:
> 
> 
> Are there any parts of GNOME that require the setuid bit to be set?
> 
> If I want to run GNOME at work as my desktop, I need to be able to
> convince the people managing security that no setuid bits is needed. Can
> anyone tell me I don't need it anywhere?

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe gnome-pty-helper must be
suid.  Though I think that might only be necessary if you want to start shells
as login shells or create wtmp/utmp entries.

-jason