From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 10 23:11:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from s8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6225514FB1 for ; Sun, 10 Oct 1999 23:11:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from localhost (jcw@localhost) by s8-37-26.student.washington.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA24258; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 11:13:55 GMT (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) X-Authentication-Warning: s8-37-26.student.washington.edu: jcw owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 11:13:54 +0000 (GMT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jcw@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu Reply-To: "Jason C. Wells" To: Greg Johnson Cc: FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: X11 on alpha In-Reply-To: <19991010232502.A17654@physics.clarku.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, Greg Johnson wrote: >xf86OpenConsole: Server must be running with root permissions >You should be using Xwrapper to start the server or xdm. >We strongly advise against making the server SUID root! Look at Xwrapper. This error/warning came with the latest X. You can fix it buy chmodding X to be setuid root. As the warning says, this is not advisable. I did it anyway. Thank You, | http://students.washington.edu/jcwells Jason Wells | "Those who would trade freedom for security deserve neither | freedom nor security." - Benjamin Franklin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message