Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 04:20:36 -0700 From: David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU> To: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> Cc: Andrew Boothman <andrew@cream.org>, "Maxim M. Kazachek" <stranger@sberbank.sibnet.ru>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X not suid root in 4.6.1-RC2? Message-ID: <20020725112036.GB4236@HAL9000.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <20020725041956.GA75402@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> References: <20020725103641.U18384-100000@sbk-gw.sibnet.ru> <3D3F7AF3.8030202@cream.org> <20020725041956.GA75402@falcon.midgard.homeip.net>
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Thus spake Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>: > > When installing via sysinstall users don't get shown the message > > explaining that they need xwrapper if the want to use startx. Does > > anyone else think that they should either be told or we just add > > xwrapper as a depandancy of the XFree86 package? > > Adding xwrapper as a dependency is a good idea. It is in fact such a > good idea that it has already been done, about a month ago. It isn't (shouldn't be) a dependency because you don't need it if you're running xdm from init. IIRC, the wrapper was split into a separate package for this reason. Moreover, if there is a locally exploitable vulnerability in the X server, installing the suid wrapper could potentially open a security hole. When you install X from ports, you get a big flashy notice telling you about the wrapper, and that should be good enough. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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