Subject: Re: X as suidroot?
From: FeLoNiouS MoNK (codered@gci.net)
Date: Fri Jul 19 2002 - 14:20:51 AKDT
X is tha symbolic link to XFree86 .. so i did what you said to XFree86 and
voila.. .. James & aklug.... your the greatest..
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Gibson" <twistedhammer@subdimension.com>
To: "Aklug" <aklug@aklug.org>
Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 1:19 PM
Subject: Re: X as suidroot?
>
> On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, FeLoNiouS MoNK wrote:
> > 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).
>
> There'a a difference between the _X server_ needing to run as root, and
> the apps you run on it running as root...
>
> in anycase, what this is complaining about is that the server binary needs
> to be suid root (in order to access /dev/console for instance, or whatever
> the *BSD equiv is.) irregardless of who is running apps ontop of it. In
> order to fix this, run (as root):
>
> # chmod 4711 /usr/X11R6/bin/X
>
> --James
>
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