--- rxvt-unicode/README.FAQ 2006/01/10 04:26:54 1.23 +++ rxvt-unicode/README.FAQ 2006/01/11 19:55:33 1.24 @@ -129,15 +129,17 @@ safe? Likely not. While I honestly try to make it secure, and am probably not bad at it, I think it is simply unreasonable to expect all of - freetype + fontconfig + xft + xlib + ... + rxvt-unicode itself to - all be secure. Also, rxvt-unicode disables some options when it - detects that it runs setuid or setgid, which is not nice. + freetype + fontconfig + xft + xlib + perl + ... + rxvt-unicode + itself to all be secure. Also, rxvt-unicode disables some options + when it detects that it runs setuid or setgid, which is not nice. + Besides, with the embedded perl interpreter the possibility for + security problems easily multiplies. Elevated privileges are only required for utmp and pty operations on some systems (for example, GNU/Linux doesn't need any extra - privileges for ptys, but some need it for utmp support). If - rxvt-unicode doesn't support the library/setuid helper that your OS - needs I'll be happy to assist you in implementing support for it. + privileges for ptys, but some need it for utmp support). It is + planned to mvoe this into a forked handler process, but this is not + yet done. So, while setuid/setgid operation is supported and not a problem on your typical single-user-no-other-logins unix desktop, always