Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2002 09:50:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Buenaventura Carreras <bcarrera@ugr.es> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: misc/41288: startx works for root but not for users Message-ID: <200208031650.g73GoJZi092600@www.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 41288 >Category: misc >Synopsis: startx works for root but not for users >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: change-request >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sat Aug 03 10:00:11 PDT 2002 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Buenaventura Carreras >Release: 4.6 >Organization: University of Granada >Environment: >Description: After installing freeBSD I could start XWindow only as root. When I tried startx as user I got the following message "Fatal server error: cannot open log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log". I changed permissions of "var/log/XFree86.0.log" to 777. Then I got among other messages something like "set suid the server". After several trials (I did not know exactly which file was the server) I found and set suid "/usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86". Since then I can start XWindow as a user. >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: Could you not provide "/usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86" already set suid with the distribution of FreeBSD 4.6 ?. For the people like me who are new to FreeBSD that could save a lot of time or even be decisive to use FreeBSD. I got my version of FreeBSD through the net as an ISO-IMAGE-i386 at ftp://ftp.es.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD. Perhaps you can post this report at some place where other people with the same (silly, I recognize) problem can see the easy solution: as root execute "chmod u+s /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86", or in KDE use Konkeror to change the permissions in the properties of the file. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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