From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 11 0:20:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from physics.clarku.edu (planck.clarku.edu [140.232.2.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D84F14DB7 for ; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 00:20:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gjohnson@physics.clarku.edu) Received: (from gjohnson@localhost) by physics.clarku.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian/GNU) id DAA24725 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 03:20:28 -0400 Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 03:20:28 -0400 From: Greg Johnson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X11 on alpha Message-ID: <19991011032028.A24463@physics.clarku.edu> References: <19991010232502.A17654@physics.clarku.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: ; from Jason C. Wells on Mon, Oct 11, 1999 at 11:13:54AM +0000 X-Operating-System: Linux planck 2.2.12 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Oct 11, 1999 at 11:13:54AM +0000, Jason C. Wells wrote: > 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. That's what I would think, but I get this message even if I run it as root. Thanks, Greg -- Greg Johnson gjohnson@physics.clarku.edu http://physics.clarku.edu/~gjohnson finger for PGP key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message