Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 11:53:40 -0800 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu> Cc: x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: x11 /tmp preparation rc.d script Message-ID: <20050110195340.GC15907@odin.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <1105321614.8452.54.camel@leguin> References: <1105321614.8452.54.camel@leguin>
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--1SQmhf2mF2YjsYvc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 05:46:54PM -0800, Eric Anholt wrote: > Attached are my proposed patches to deal with the X11 ICE issue. To > review, it's required because having .ICE not owned by root is a > security issue, one that's been papered over with a printed warning and > sleep(5) in libICE for years, and has recently been changed into an > actual error by the X.Org folks. >=20 > The question is whether to stick it in base or in ports: >=20 > In favor of ports: > - Seems like the proper place. Nothing happens for non-X11 users. > In favor of base: > - Would either need to make a separate port just for the script, or > keep the script in at least 3 separate ports, disregarding the > cleanup of servers which might make for more ports affected. > - From ports, it might get started too late in the boot process, or > not at all in some installations. It turns out that doing it in localpkg isn't a problem so we might want to go ahead and do it that way. One thing I've been wondering about is, why isn't startx/xdm doing this creation? They have the required privs and are garenteed not to get in a race (since it would be with them selves). -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --1SQmhf2mF2YjsYvc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFB4t1DXY6L6fI4GtQRAhPZAJ4nVJjL/SsPcSl4BUPZsjc0wBvm8gCdERT5 xvctx2Be+0fJrBdp4Hydm0s= =K3xm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --1SQmhf2mF2YjsYvc--
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