RE: tlug: Xwrapper (was Xwrapper and "and Cathedral and Bazaar"

[David Dibben <dibben@example.com>]

On 31-Mar-98 Jonathan Byrne--3Web wrote:

>>how did you solve the problem?  Or, RU only running as root?
> 
> I'm running only as root when I need to use X.  People say that's a
> dangerous way to surf the Net, so I'm basically doing all of my surfing on
> Windows.  I'm hoping to find a work-around, though.  On my work machine,
> it's starting with an X login prompt like I set it to, which allows me to
> log in under X with my own userid (I don't think that's a good work-around,
> but it's the only one I know), but on my home machine it's not giving me an
> X login, just a standard shell prompt login, forcing me to be root all the
> time.
> 
> I'm hoping to find a way to start X from the shell prompt without logging in
> as root, but I'm still kind of new at this stuff.  If Scott's reading the
> mail this morning, maybe he'll bring the PHT cavalry over the hill and save
> us :-)

On my system the X server has its sticky bet set:

% ls -l  /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_S3
 -rws--x--x   1 root     users     2372006 Aug  5  1997 /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_S3

This can be done with a command like (as root)

 chmod u+s /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_S3 

This means that an ordinary user can run X but it the permissions of root.
Since this was the way the system got set up when I installed it (I haven't
changed anything)  I assume that this is the normal way things are done.

David





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