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Date:      Fri, 23 Aug 2002 10:41:16 +0100
From:      Aleksandar Simic <asimic@dsl.pipex.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   /usr/X11R6/bin/Xfree86 permissions ?
Message-ID:  <20020823094116.GA93478@myname.my.domain>

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Hello,

after upgrading my ports collection using portupgrade(1) I couldn't start
X. I got the following error:

"xf86OpenConsole: Server must be suid root"

So I changed the permission of /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 from

-rwxr-xr-x to -rwsr-xr-x, and then I could startx(1).

The server in questions is XFree86-Server-4.2.0_5.

I was wondering why wasn't suid bit set by default ? And did anybody
else get this same error ?

Thanks,

--Alex


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