Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 10:58:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Ade Lovett <ade@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, jmz@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: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009191057260.20043-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200009191700.LAA39460@harmony.village.org>
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On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Warner Losh wrote:
> 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?
Yep. Kudos to Trevor for doing this. Salut! :-)
We should install this by default when installing XFree86-4.
Kris
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