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- From: cks@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu (Chris Siebenmann)
- Subject: Re: Service Accounts running X login
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.135004.1947@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
- Organization: Ziebmef home away from home
- References: <1992Aug25.152709.23868@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> <1992Aug27.145415.6557@cc.ic.ac.uk>
- Date: 31 Aug 92 17:50:04 GMT
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- cmaae47@cc.ic.ac.uk writes:
- | -- Btw, is it possible for an user logged into the console in character mode
- | -- to start an X window enviroment ? Someting like startx ?
- | Yes, but it is a real pain, as on the DECstation (ours at least) Xws will
- | not run under user's uid, so you have to write an suid wrapper for it.
-
- The X server gets at the graphics hardware via the /dev/mouse device;
- if this file is owned by root and mode 644 (as it is in the default
- distribution), then only root can run X servers. The better solution
- is simply to chmod it to 666; it doesn't allow multiple accesses at
- once, so you're still safe against people snooping on your screen.
-
- Perhaps DEC might want to document this somewhere? I think I figured
- it out either by reading the server source for X11R3 or by simply
- chmod'ing 666 anything that looked graphics related in /dev.
-
- --
- When we get calls from faculty and staff regarding problematic
- software, we always ask if they have a backup. We got this
- *classic* response today "Well, I thought I had a backup, but
- she refused to type it in again..." - Lou Anschuetz
- cks@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu ...!{utgpu,utzoo,watmath}!utgpu!cks
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