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Date:      Wed, 29 Dec 2004 12:57:22 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu>
Cc:        ports-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports UPDATING
Message-ID:  <20041229205722.GA41658@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <1104353261.854.33.camel@leguin>
References:  <200412292001.iBTK1JBN042061@repoman.freebsd.org> <1104353261.854.33.camel@leguin>

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On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 12:47:41PM -0800, Eric Anholt wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 20:01 +0000, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> > lofi        2004-12-29 20:01:19 UTC
> >=20
> >   FreeBSD ports repository
> >=20
> >   Modified files:
> >     .                    UPDATING=20
> >   Log:
> >   Add a note about checking the ICE socket directory in case KDE refuses
> >   to start after upgrading to Xorg 6.8.1 (which for some reason that's
> >   escaping me makes .ICE-unix/ not owned by root a fatal error).
>=20
> This is because for security that directory does need to be owned by
> root.  The conclusion of various discussions and confcalls was that
> there was no way to make .ICE-unix be owned by root reasonably from
> X.Org's side, so distros would have to be responsible for it.  I guess
> the question is whether the rc script that does that, along with
> the /tmp cleanup, should live in the base system or in the port.  My
> opinion is that an x11 setup script should actually live in the base
> system, as there's no other sensible central place to put it, unless we
> were to have a single "X11 common misc stuff" port.

I think there's a PR about this.

Kris

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