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Date:      Tue, 19 Sep 2000 11:00:20 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        Ade Lovett <ade@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/x11 Makefile ports/x11/wrapper Makefile ports/x11/wrapper/files md5 ports/x11/wrapper/pkg COMMENT DEINSTALL DESCR PLIST 
Message-ID:  <200009191700.LAA39460@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 19 Sep 2000 09:45:40 PDT." <200009191645.JAA96634@freefall.freebsd.org> 
References:  <200009191645.JAA96634@freefall.freebsd.org>  

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In message <200009191645.JAA96634@freefall.freebsd.org> Ade Lovett writes:
:   Add wrapper, a program that runs an X server after sanity-checking
:   the environment and any options passed to it.  It is meant to
:   enhance security on multi-user systems running XFree86 4.x, where
:   the ability to use a startx script is needed.

XFree86 desided it was no longer needed, but history since the release
of 4.0 has shown otherwise.  This used to be part of X called
Xwrapper.  This restores this functionality, no?

Warner


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