Re: Security audit result: gnome-pty-helper

[Chris Evans <chris ferret lmh ox ac uk>]

On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, Miguel de Icaza wrote:

> > One more thing, a packaging issue. "gnome-pty-helper" is sgid root as well
> > as suid-root. I would suggest only the latter is neccessary.
> 
> Strange.  We run chmod +s on the program, isn't that supposed to only
> add setuid?

I don't know what its "supposed" to do - we need to wheel in a POSIX guru
for that ;-)

But what it actually does on system, is "+s => u+s,g+s"

Chris