X as suidroot?


Subject: X as suidroot?
From: FeLoNiouS MoNK (codered@gci.net)
Date: Fri Jul 19 2002 - 12:41:28 AKDT


got fBSD running pur-dee good now.. only thing is it says i gotta be suid root to run X ... and i really really really dont wanna be root running X.. although people say its secure i can see myself makina mistake and destroying sumthing... so the question is .. how do i fix this?(i havnt run X in like a year but i think its purty easy to get around this..) abridged version of the error is right here

Fatal server error:
xf86OpenConsole: Server must be suid root
.......

X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).

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