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On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Christoph Doerbeck A242369 wrote:
> Gordon & and I have spent the last 15 minutes conferencing, truss'ing and
> reading a plethora of man pages.
>
> xterm calls grantpt() which execve("/usr/lib/pt_chmod" ... )
>
> If you look, /usr/lib/pt_chmod is setuid. Mystery solved!!!
>
> The key to unlock this whole mess was to run
>
> truss -f xterm > /tmp/xterm.out 2>&1
>
> and then vi /tmp/xterm.out and sift through the rubble...
>
> - Christoph
Know where I can get truss for Linux?
:)
Derek D. Martin | UNIX System Administrator
d_martin at worldnet.att.net | dmartin at lancity.com
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