From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 14 10:54:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A0D537B401 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:54:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from mel-rto2.wanadoo.fr (smtp-out-2.wanadoo.fr [193.252.19.254]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E86EB43E88 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:54:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hymette@wanadoo.fr) Received: from mel-rta9.wanadoo.fr (193.252.19.69) by mel-rto2.wanadoo.fr (6.5.007) id 3DA24CF601653DD6 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 19:54:38 +0100 Received: from wanadoo.fr (80.15.88.136) by mel-rta9.wanadoo.fr (6.5.007) id 3DD3EB76000045CF for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 19:54:38 +0100 Message-ID: <3DD3F355.1000106@wanadoo.fr> Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 20:02:45 +0100 From: hymette@wanadoo.fr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20021108 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: setuid XFree ? References: <3DD3F0A1.6070405@wanadoo.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hi, I migrated recently to stable. Now trying to launch XFree with startx on a non root account results in an error message recommending to setuid server root, but how? Is there another way of obtaining access (except xdm) - Xwrapper-4 just bring me to the root X window (with the cross)? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message