Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 01:45:07 +0100 From: morten.gulbrandsen@t-online.de (Morten Gulbrandsen) To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Albert Kinderman <albert.kinderman@csun.edu> Subject: Re: XFree86-4 and startx Message-ID: <3C2FB513.BDBBEFC6@T-Online.DE> References: <3C2EB15A.901ABD20@csun.edu> <3C2EB217.1B279C68@csun.edu>
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Albert Kinderman wrote: > > A small mistake. you need XFREE86_VERSION=4. The message that comes > with XFree86-4 is as follows: > > ************************************************************************ > * 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. * > ************************************************************************ > * If XFree86-4 is not a basic part of your operating system, add the * > * following line to /etc/make.conf: XFREE86_VERSION=4 * > ************************************************************************ Interesting, I will investigate my /etc/make.conf bash-2.04$ cat make.conf USA_RESIDENT=NO PAPERSIZE=a4 MASTER_SITE_BACKUP?=ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/${DIST_SUB DIR}/ MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE?=ftp://ftp.de.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/${DIS T_SUBDIR}/ ftp://ftp7.de.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/${DIST_SUBDIR}/ MASTER_SITE_GNU?=ftp://ftp7.de.freebsd.org/pub/mirror/gnu/prep.ai/%SUBDIR%/ MASTER_SORT_REGEX?=^file: ^ftp://ftp\.FreeBSD\.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/local-distf iles/ ://[^/]*\.de/ ://[^/]*\.de\. Adding one line is not a problem, at the beginning ? > > Albert Kinderman wrote: > > > > If you use XFree86-4 with startx, there are permission problems (related > > to security). In order for you to use startx, you must install > > x11/wrapper. This is interesting, please tell me more . Quoting from the package description, > > > > "This program runs an X server after sanity-checking the environment > > and any options passed to it. It is meant to enhance security on > > multi-user systems running XFree86 4, where the ability to use a > > startx script is needed. If you have XFree86 3, do not install > > this: you do not need it and it will not work. If you have no > > untrusted users or always run the X server from xdm, you do not > > need this (in the latter case, just take the suid bit off your X > > server)." > > > > There is also a message that is part of the XFree86-4 port. You should > > have seen it at the end of the make or the end of the install (I > > forget). You can see the message in the sub-directory > > /var/db/pkg/XFree86-4 This is interesting, I will take a look right now bash-2.04$ pwd /var/db/pkg bash-2.04$ cd XFree86- XFree86-3.3.6_4 XFree86-clients-4.0.1 XFree86-4.0.1_8 XFree86-documents-4.0.1 XFree86-aoutlibs-3.3.3 XFree86-libraries-4.0.1_2 bash-2.04$ ls -l XFree86-4.0.1_8 total 371 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 34 Dec 25 01:12 +COMMENT -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 360642 Dec 25 01:12 +CONTENTS -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 156 Dec 25 01:12 +DESC -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 365 Dec 25 01:12 +DISPLAY I found the subdirectory, what can I do now ? I can see no message, can you ? > > > > If you make wrapper from ports, you need to have to have the following > > line in your /etc/make.conf > > > > XFREE_VERSION=4 OK I got it, > > > > > > -- > > Albert Kinderman California State University, Northridge > > Systems and Operations Management albert.kinderman@csun.edu > > -- > Albert Kinderman California State University, Northridge > Systems and Operations Management albert.kinderman@csun.edu Thank you for this valuable piece of information, at the end of next week I will try that with a NetBSD expert together. Do you believe the difference between NetBSD and FreeBSD is significant regarding the x server ? What is your opinion, where should I start ? remember I just went into /usr/ports/x11/ and started to install everything, just befor that, my freebsd was shining. What we can do now is warn newbies about installing from /usr/ports/x11/ and investigate what went wrong. I have so much important stuff here i just can't make fdisk. Why can't just all those dangerous make install files in the wrong directories just be removed? I choose FreeBSD because of the variety of compilers and find FreeBSD a lot easier for installing a compiler than Linux . But this accident can be prevented. Yours Sincerely Morten Gulbrandsen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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