Date: 26 Aug 1998 21:26:47 +0200 From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) To: marko@cs.uni-frankfurt.de Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86 3.3.2 permissions? Message-ID: <xzpemu3fsso.fsf@olvaldi.ifi.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Marko Schuetz's message of "Wed, 26 Aug 1998 10:29:53 %2B0200 (MESZ)" References: <199808260829.KAA01436@king.ki.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de>
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Marko Schuetz <marko@king.ki.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de> writes: > [...] With the XF86Config from the previous install I tried > startx. I looked through the stuff that I downloaded and found that > the new XF86_SVGA did not have the setuid bit set as the old one > had. Setting it solved the problem for me. Now I am curious: should > 3.3.2 run without the setuid bit set? No. It was removed for a reason (it's a big security hole). Either start X as root, or use xdm. The latter is so useful and so easy to set up there's really no excuse for not using it. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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