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Date:      Mon, 24 Jun 2002 05:58:09 +1000 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        Makoto Matsushita <matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        des@ofug.org, <will@csociety.org>, <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>, <arch@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Installing XFree86 package via sysinstall: need X wrapper or not?
Message-ID:  <20020624055428.L13837-100000@gamplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020624002649D.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org>

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On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Makoto Matsushita wrote:

> Let me clarify the point again:
>
> Background:
> 	1) In XFree86 3.x, the non-root users of startx(1) kick X
> 	   server without any setups, since X server is a setuid binary.

The X server is not setuid in XFree86 3.3.6, and IIRC it was not setuid
in a couple of earlier versions.

Bruce


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