Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2002 16:30:56 -0400 From: "Jud" <jud@myrealbox.com> To: oberman@es.net Cc: freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com, cjcarri@earthlink.net, adam@vectors.cx, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Re: startx crashes for non-root users on Free86 4.2.0/FreeBSD 4.6 Message-ID: <1034195456.a102fbc0jud@myrealbox.com>
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-----Original Message----- From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com> Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2002 13:12:48 -0700 Subject: Re: startx crashes for non-root users on Free86 4.2.0/FreeBSD 4.6= =20 [snip] New? I think that it's been there ever since XFree86 V4 came to FreeBSD. Of course, XFree86 V4 just became the default at 4.6, I guess, but many people have been running it for months to support any newer video cards. That said, it is confusing and upsetting when this hits the first time. And more so when you realize that you must re-install wrapper every time you re-build your X server. But the security problems of living without the wrapper are simply unacceptable. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net=09=09=09Phone: +1 510 486-8634 ____________________________________________ Wonder if fewer people would be surprised by this if a warning about it appeared at the beginning as well as the end of the port build process? Then what to do about package installs, e.g., using /stand/sysinstall? Jud To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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