From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Feb 22 15: 3:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from daffy.uwnet.nl (ns.isd-holland.nl [195.7.130.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 426C537B491 for ; Thu, 22 Feb 2001 15:03:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from abgoeree@uwnet.nl) Received: from dyn.dailup.c227140174.isd.to (dyn.dailup.c227140174.isd.to [213.227.140.174]) by daffy.uwnet.nl (8.11.1/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f1MN3AT13354 for ; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 00:03:10 +0100 Received: (qmail 17541 invoked by uid 1000); 22 Feb 2001 22:18:47 -0000 From: "Andre Goeree" Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 23:18:47 +0100 To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Xserver won't start Message-ID: <20010222231847.A17500@mandark.attica.home> Reply-To: abgoeree@uwnet.nl References: <20010221194958.A41180@telocity.com> <20010221210050.G66731@mollari.cthul.hu> <20010222135643.A92188@nihilist.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010222135643.A92188@nihilist.org>; from tcole@nihilist.org on Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 01:56:43PM -0800 X-Sender: abgoeree@uwnet.nl Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 01:56:43PM -0800, Travis Cole wrote: > On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 09:00:50PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > > Don't do this; install the Xwrapper port instead -- the setuid bit was > > removed from the XFree86 in favour of the Xwrapper port for a reason > > (improved security). > > So why not make the XFree86-4 port depend on Xwrapper so confusion > like this can be avoided? > If you run XFree86-4 via xdm you don't need the wrapper: ************************************************************************ * To improve security, the X server is installed without an SUID bit. * * This is suitable for use with xdm, but not with a startx script. * * If you need to use a startx script, install the x11/wrapper package. * ************************************************************************ People should just pay more attention to the messages when they install ports.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message