From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 11 16:18:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA15371 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 11 May 1998 16:18:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cyclone.degnet.baynet.de (www.degnet.baynet.de [194.95.214.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA15306 for ; Mon, 11 May 1998 16:18:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from malte@webmore.com) Received: from neuron.webmore.com (unverified [194.95.214.175]) by cyclone.degnet.baynet.de (EMWAC SMTPRS 0.83) with SMTP id ; Tue, 12 May 1998 01:15:31 +0200 Received: from neuron.webmore.de (malte@webmore.com) by neuron.webmore.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA02118; Tue, 12 May 1998 01:17:26 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 01:17:26 +0200 (CEST) Reply-To: malte@webmore.com From: Malte Lance To: kwoody@abalone.citytel.net Subject: RE: An X question.. Cc: freebsd-questions Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 11-May-98 kwoody@abalone.citytel.net wrote: > 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? Yes. Malte > > Thanks > Keith > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Malte Lance Date: 12-May-98 Time: 01:12:16 ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message