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Date:      Sat, 22 Jun 2002 13:42:29 -0700
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
To:        Will Andrews <will@csociety.org>
Cc:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org>, Makoto Matsushita <matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org>, arch@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Installing XFree86 package via sysinstall: need X wrapper or not?
Message-ID:  <20020622204229.GG53232@elvis.mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020622200545.GS76002@squall.waterspout.com>
References:  <20020621135806Z.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> <20020621134520.G68827@dragon.nuxi.com> <20020621223209.GP76002@squall.waterspout.com> <xzp4rfv3bbb.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20020622200545.GS76002@squall.waterspout.com>

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* Will Andrews <will@csociety.org> [020622 13:06] wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 11:35:52AM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> > Yes, there is: it's a setuid binary.  It shouldn't be installed unless
> > it's needed.
> 
> I don't think sacrificing POLA for security is going to help
> anything in *this* particular case.

Not having 'startx' or having a 'startx' that doesn't work is
really a bad idea.  It _will_ annoy users.

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org]

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