From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 11 11:55:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA28447 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 11 May 1998 11:55:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from abalone.citytel.net (kwoody@abalone.rupert.net [204.244.98.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA28439 for ; Mon, 11 May 1998 11:55:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kwoody@abalone.citytel.net) From: kwoody@abalone.citytel.net Received: from localhost (kwoody@localhost) by abalone.citytel.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA29563; Mon, 11 May 1998 11:55:05 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 11:55:05 -0700 (PDT) To: Malte Lance cc: freebsd-questions Subject: RE: An X question.. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 11 May 1998, Malte Lance wrote: > > On 11-May-98 Keith Woodworth wrote: > > Now according to /usr/include/sys/errno.h and error 13 is permission denied. > > there is a symlink for X to /usr/X11R6/bin/xf86_s3 with lrwxrwxrwx > > and xf86_s3 is rw-r-r, so since no execute bits are set I'm assuming > > thats why the permission denied error. > > Yes. > Assuming you are using XFree86-3.3.2, make your Xserver (XF86_s3) mode 755. > Do NOT set it suid. > Havent been able to try it yet but will soon, and yes its 3.3.2. Is setting it suid a security risk? Thanks Keith To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message