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Date:      Fri, 23 Aug 2002 12:15:54 +0200
From:      Thomas Spreng <spreng@insomniac.ch>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: /usr/X11R6/bin/Xfree86 permissions ?
Message-ID:  <20020823121554.A68179@rock.stable.ch>
In-Reply-To: <20020823094116.GA93478@myname.my.domain>; from asimic@dsl.pipex.com on Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 10:41:16AM %2B0100
References:  <20020823094116.GA93478@myname.my.domain>

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On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 10:41:16AM +0100, Aleksandar Simic wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> after upgrading my ports collection using portupgrade(1) I couldn't start
> X. I got the following error:
> 
> "xf86OpenConsole: Server must be suid root"
> 
> So I changed the permission of /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 from
> 
> -rwxr-xr-x to -rwsr-xr-x, and then I could startx(1).
> 
> The server in questions is XFree86-Server-4.2.0_5.
> 
> I was wondering why wasn't suid bit set by default ? And did anybody
> else get this same error ?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> --Alex
> 
> 

Hello Alex,

you'll need the x11/wrapper package in order to run the xserver without
the setuid flag.

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