Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 18:13:59 -0500 (EST) From: lgfbsd@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: docs/24809: info on X and securelevels Message-ID: <200102022313.f12NDxi05524@be-well.ilk.org>
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>Number: 24809
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: info on X and securelevels
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Fri Feb 02 15:20:01 PST 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Lowell Gilbert
>Release: FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE i386
>Organization:
n/a
>Environment:
install for 4.2-RELEASE (and on, I assume)
>Description:
The install now gives the opportunity to set an elevated securelevel,
resulting in lots of questions about why X won't start.
It would be better to take care of this at install time, but I'm not
really sure how to do that; there's too much to securelevels to
explain all of it in the install itself. My preference would be that
the option shouldn't be at install time at all, but I doubt that will
fly.
>How-To-Repeat:
watch the questions
>Fix:
[quick hackwork, but it's at least a starting place]
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</qandaentry>
<qandaentry>
+ <question id="running-X-securelevels">
+ <para>I <emphasis>tried</emphasis> to run X, but I get an
+ <literal>KDENABIO failed (Operation not permitted)</literal>
+ error when I type <command>startx</command>!
+ What do I do now?</para>
+ </question>
+
+ <answer>
+
+ <para>Your system is running at a raised securelevel, isn't
+ it? It is, indeed, impossible to start X at a raised
+ securelevel. [To see why, look at the
+ <ulink URL="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?init(8)">;
+ init(8)</ulink> man page]</para>
+
+ <para>So the question is what else you should do instead,
+ and you basically have two choices: set your securelevel
+ back down to zero (usually from
+ <filename>/etc/rc.conf</filename>), or run
+ <link linkend=xdm-boot>xdm</link> at boot time (before the
+ securelevel is raised).</para>
+
+ </answer>
+ </qandaentry>
+
+ <qandaentry>
<question id="x-and-moused">
<para>Why doesn't my mouse work with X?</para>
</question>
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