Apparently "most" refers to Redhat, using utempter. Otherwise, xterm's installed setgid. The X libraries (as you should have noted, having commented "as often reported") for several years have stripped certain environment variables from setuid and setgid programs.
utempter isn't much of an improvement (read it - or gnome-terminal ;-) There's other ways to use the linker than by hacking up your filesystem. Look into rpath, for instance. -- Contents LD_LIBRARY_PATH cleared by xterm https://launchpad.net/bugs/76618 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
