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- From: herr@hp14.iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Gabor Herr)
- Subject: Re: Problems with X as non-root
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- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.085241.32334@infoserver.th-darmstadt.de>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 08:52:41 GMT
- References: <1992Jul21.234613.4757@cs.tulane.edu> <1992Jul22.150309.18573@crd.ge.com> <1992Jul23.033256.1633@cs.tulane.edu>
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- In article <1992Jul23.033256.1633@cs.tulane.edu>, butler@cs.tulane.edu (Larry Butler) writes:
- > Hi,
- > I posted the original article(Problems with X as root). I seem to have
- > fixed my problem. I did :
- >
- > chmod u+s /usr/bin/X11/X386
-
- > chmod u+s /usr/bin/X11/xinit
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- ^^You need not do this any more. It was added to the instructions because of
- a bug in the early 0.96 kernel, which was fixed in 0.96b. Only X386, xterm and
- resize must run setuid-root.
-
-
- Gabor
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- Gabor Herr Email: herr@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de
- Computer Science Department
- Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
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