xterm fails to start with "setuid failed: Permission denied"

[Peter Keller]

Ralf Habacker wrote:

>
> This is caused by a stricter uid/gid handling in cygwin 1.3.11. I've stumbled
> about it and Corinna Vinschen told me to make sure, that for all user, who could
> own files, which you like to access has to be a corresponding entry in
> /etc/passwd.
>
> See http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-06/msg01198.html for more informations.

Thanks: after fixing my /etc/passwd, it works for me. BUT, I don't use ntsec, which
is
why I had never read the docs about it too closely.

This stricter uid/gid stuff affects non-ntsec use as well: perhaps the user manual
could
be updated to reflect this?

Regards,
Peter.

P.S. xcalc and xedit are still broken. Maybe a Motif/Lesstif problem? Anyway, these
are
not the most important of utilities.