From owner-freebsd-arch Sat Jun 22 13:42:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 254C637B403; Sat, 22 Jun 2002 13:42:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1192) id D601FAE163; Sat, 22 Jun 2002 13:42:29 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 13:42:29 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Will Andrews Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , David O'Brien , Makoto Matsushita , arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Installing XFree86 package via sysinstall: need X wrapper or not? Message-ID: <20020622204229.GG53232@elvis.mu.org> References: <20020621135806Z.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> <20020621134520.G68827@dragon.nuxi.com> <20020621223209.GP76002@squall.waterspout.com> <20020622200545.GS76002@squall.waterspout.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020622200545.GS76002@squall.waterspout.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Will Andrews [020622 13:06] wrote: > On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 11:35:52AM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > Yes, there is: it's a setuid binary. It shouldn't be installed unless > > it's needed. > > I don't think sacrificing POLA for security is going to help > anything in *this* particular case. Not having 'startx' or having a 'startx' that doesn't work is really a bad idea. It _will_ annoy users. -- -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message