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] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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