From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 25 13:11:49 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 7561837B400 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 13:11:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from russian-caravan.cloud9.net (russian-caravan.cloud9.net [168.100.1.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1591943E3B for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 13:11:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com) Received: from earl-grey.cloud9.net (earl-grey.cloud9.net [168.100.1.1]) by russian-caravan.cloud9.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FBFF28D6F; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 16:11:44 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 16:11:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Leftwich X-X-Sender: To: Adam Weinberger Cc: Koroush Saraf , FreeBSD LIST Subject: Re: XFree86 runs as root but not as user! In-Reply-To: <20020725190902.GL94707@vectors.cx> Message-ID: <20020725160827.V58623-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Organization: Video2Video Services - http://Www.Video2Video.Com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Adam Weinberger wrote: > have you installed /usr/ports/x11/wrapper? -Adam Isn't there also an Xwrapper binary? Is the wrapper to which you refer secure and bug-free? It sounds like it creates a situation where users "get around" some kind of hurdle, rather than root simply chmod'ing some dirs or binaries. By the way, can anyone explain the following?? # man wrapper No manual entry for wrapper # pkg_add -r wrapper Fetching ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4-stable/Latest/wrapper.tgz... Done. # man wrapper No manual entry for wrapper # rehash # man wrapper No manual entry for wrapper How is a user expected to learn what this is and what it does? Thanks, > >> (07.25.2002 @ 1210 PST): Koroush Saraf said, in 0.7K: << > > This is probably a trivial and old question, but I havn't found an answer yet. > > > > I just installed BSD 4.6 and can't get XFree86 to run as a user. > > It works fine as root. So I figure some permission is not set correctly somewhere. > > I tried to chmod 4755 on startx just to see what happens, and nothing exciting happened! > > The error is below: Please help! and include this email address in the reply > > > > > Fatal server error: > > > Cannot open log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log" > > > giving up. > > > xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X server > > > xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error > > > end of "XFree86 runs as root but not as user!" from Koroush Saraf << > -- > "Oh good, my dog found the chainsaw." > -Lilo, "Lilo & Stitch" > Adam Weinberger > adam@vectors.cx > http://vectors.cx -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message