From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 19 20:11:30 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4A2A106566B for ; Sun, 19 Aug 2012 20:11:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D2868FC0C for ; Sun, 19 Aug 2012 20:11:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1T3BqE-0006wp-SD for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 19 Aug 2012 22:11:22 +0200 Received: from cpc3-walt15-2-0-cust148.13-2.cable.virginmedia.com ([86.21.186.149]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 19 Aug 2012 22:11:22 +0200 Received: from walterhurry by cpc3-walt15-2-0-cust148.13-2.cable.virginmedia.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 19 Aug 2012 22:11:22 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Walter Hurry Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2012 20:11:13 +0000 (UTC) Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: <503125EF.1020500@dreamchaser.org> <20120819195118.00427f87.freebsd@edvax.de> <503132A6.9030906@mail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cpc3-walt15-2-0-cust148.13-2.cable.virginmedia.com User-Agent: Pan/0.135 (Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea; GIT 30dc37b master) Subject: Re: user specific xorg.conf? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2012 20:11:30 -0000 On Sun, 19 Aug 2012 21:38:30 +0300, Jeff Tipton wrote: > On 08/19/2012 20:51, Polytropon wrote: >> On Sun, 19 Aug 2012 11:44:15 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: >>> In attempting to zero in on my system crash problem, >>> I need to customize xorg.conf. >>> As I read the documentation, >>> there is no way for an ordinary user to provide an xorg.conf; >>> Xorg looks for files in the normal server search path, >>> which does not include any user directories -- >>> unless the user is root. >> What if you do (as a user) the "startx" command and try to hand the >> -config to the program, like this: >> >> % Xorg -file /home/user/test/xorg.conf >> >> I haven't tried that myself, but according to "man Xorg" this option >> does exist. However, I'm not sure if xinit or startx honors this option >> if you use them (to make use of ~/.xinitrc). >> >> >> >>> Am I missing something? >>> Is this because of the security vulnerabilities in X? >> A valid consideration. With a malfunctioning X server, you can easily >> crash a system. That's why a user should not be able to have access to >> such files. >> >> > Gary, why do you need user-specific xorg.conf? Presumably because he doesn't have root privileges. Duh.