Re: Security audit result: gnome-pty-helper

["Michael K. Johnson" <johnsonm redhat com>]

Miguel de Icaza writes:
>Strange.  We run chmod +s on the program, isn't that supposed to only
>add setuid?

No, +s is equivalent to a+s, which sets all s bits it can, just like
+rw is like a+rw and sets all possible r and w bits (modulo the umask).

u+s is what we want.

michaelkjohnson

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