From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 23 3:16: 3 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 C82E537B400 for ; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 03:16:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay01.cablecom.net (relay01.cablecom.net [62.2.33.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F16B43E4A for ; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 03:16:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mlist@stable.ch) Received: from smtp.swissonline.ch (mail-4.swissonline.ch [62.2.32.85]) by relay01.cablecom.net (8.12.5/8.12.5/SOL/AWF/MXRELAY/20020820) with ESMTP id g7NAFw20002665 for ; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 12:15:58 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mlist@stable.ch) Received: from rock.stable.ch (dclient217-162-34-199.hispeed.ch [217.162.34.199]) by smtp.swissonline.ch (8.11.6/8.11.6/SMTPSOL/AWF/2002040101) with ESMTP id g7NAFvH22257 for ; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 12:15:58 +0200 (MEST) Received: from mlist by rock.stable.ch with local (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17iBTu-000Hki-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 12:15:54 +0200 Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 12:15:54 +0200 From: Thomas Spreng To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /usr/X11R6/bin/Xfree86 permissions ? Message-ID: <20020823121554.A68179@rock.stable.ch> References: <20020823094116.GA93478@myname.my.domain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020823094116.GA93478@myname.my.domain>; from asimic@dsl.pipex.com on Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 10:41:16AM +0100 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 On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 10:41:16AM +0100, Aleksandar Simic wrote: > > 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 > > Hello Alex, you'll need the x11/wrapper package in order to run the xserver without the setuid flag. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message