Hi, On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, John Grant wrote:

Other than a wrapper for X I mean. :) What does it do?

If former times, the X Server itself ran SETUID root. Since this poses some security problems, the XFree86 team generated this wrapper which makes the whole thing more secure. I know, this is not a very technical description :) Bye, LenZ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lenz Grimmer SuSE GmbH mailto:grimmer@suse.de Schanzaeckerstr. 10 http://www.suse.de/~grimmer 90443 Nuernberg, Germany -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/