From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Aug 29 14:52:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA09442 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 14:52:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail3.mailsorter.net (mail3.mailsorter.net [209.132.1.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA09436 for ; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 14:52:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jose@nohow.demon.co.uk) Received: from nohow.demon.co.uk ([212.228.18.189]) by mail3.mailsorter.net (Netscape Mail Server v2.02) with ESMTP id AAA766 for ; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 14:51:05 -0700 Received: from localhost (jose@localhost) by nohow.demon.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA17104 for ; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:43:45 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jose@nohow.demon.co.uk) Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:43:45 +0100 (BST) From: Jose Marques To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86 3.3.2 permissions? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from QUOTED-PRINTABLE to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id OAA09437 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 26 Aug 1998, Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav wrote: > No. It was removed for a reason (it's a big security hole). Either > start X as root, or use xdm. The latter is so useful and so easy to > set up there's really no excuse for not using it. A long long time ago I tried Xdm but the "login.conf" stuff did not appear to work with it. Has this changed? If so, I'll give it a go. -- Jose Marques To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message